[stylist] Naming characters

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

That's a good thing to think about.  In a story I was working on 
about 2 friends at a blindness training center, I thought to put 
a couple of characters in to represent myself and the 3 main 
friends that I hung out with/talked to, just to see how they 
would fit into the story.  But that's a good point, they could 
easily know.
Vejas

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Tessa via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
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Date sent: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 17:22:24 -0500
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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
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Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 3:45 pm
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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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 From: Tessa via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
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 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

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 From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist  
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 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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