[stylist] Naming characters

[Tessa]

Hi Vejas,
I don't think I've ever done that. I have borrowed someone's name and maybe the resulting character is a little like that person but I tend not to use real people as characters. I write fiction and I don't want my friends or family offended because they think one of my characters is modeled after them and is doing something totally inappropriate or illegal. 
Tessa




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From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist  <stylist at nfbnet.org>
To: Writers' Division Mailing List  <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 3:45 pm
Subject: Re: [stylist] Naming characters

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>
> 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
> 
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>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tessa via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
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> 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 you.  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
> 
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> 
>  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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