[stylist] Naming characters

[Miss Thea]

Hi, Bridget.
That's often where I get stuck: watching and hearing the scenes playing out 
in my head.
I'm so busy watching the movie, I don't get to writing it down as soon as I 
should. LOL
Thea

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From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
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I also spend a lot of time in my head before writing. I like to map things
out in my head, create scenes, think about characters and scenarios all in
my head before even attempting to write it down.

Bridgit

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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 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

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From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist  <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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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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