[stylist] Naming characters

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

Tessa,
What have you or anyone else done about a character whom you want 
to base on someone you know in real life? Do you usually have 
that character start with the same letter as the person you know?
Vejas


 ----- Original Message -----
From: Tessa via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 14:47:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [stylist] Naming characters

Thanks, yes that's about the way I do it, names come and they're 
usually appropriate, but I tend to spend a lot of quality time in 
my head with my characters before they get on the computer.
Kenyan apparently spends time and research on character names but 
she also has quotes in her book from writer's who don't.
I often pick up names from books, or from just listening to stuff 
locally, we have a large Finnish population so we get names like 
Toivo and Helgi, male and Aija saija and kaija female the j is 
pronounced like a y.  Of course parents are also being very 
creative and inventing names I remember reading something that 
said the name Wendy hadn't been used before until jm barrie used 
it in peter pan.
I've read where an author will go through the phone book picking 
out appropriate names or name ideas, not necessarily practical 
for us but now many of the baby naming books are being made 
available in alternate formats.
Oddly enough one of my characters is named Martin, he's an 
assassin among other things, Martin is not a name I would have 
considered for that particular life style, but it's stuck for 
some reason and it works.
Names are definitely interesting.
Tessa

----- Original Message -----
From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist  <stylist at nfbnet.org
To: his'Writers' Division Mailing List'"  <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 12:43 pm
Subject: [stylist] Naming characters



 Tessa,

 First, happy New Year.

 Second, I really like the name Tessa, grin.

 Third, I usually use whatever name pops in my head when writing.  
Of course,
 I mostly write nonfiction, so that's a horse of another color, 
smile, but
 when I do write fiction, which I did just start a new story, I 
do a lot of
 thinking in my head before I even begin writing anything down, 
and often
 names will just come.  Usually the first name I come up with is 
what sticks.

 Not a lot of thought goes into the naming of my characters, 
smile.

 Bridgit



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