July 2021, Day 16

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Why or why oh why, when I'm writing little original pieces with characters I am trying to make ordinary people, do I spend nearly as long dithering over names, changing names, deciding the names are too weird, deciding the names are too dull, remembering that I've used that name in theree other ficlets, fixing on names, then remembering you still see the ex-workmates with those name sometimes and won't feel write using them, and changing them again... back to the first one?

For a 600 word exercise with two characters?

{sigh}

One definite good thing about fanfic, the main characters all come pre-named...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is very true. *g*

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Sometimes my happy obsession with names does get in my own way... I mean for stories about ordinary life, I need names that sound realistic for ordinary modern-day people.

And I really prefer making up entertainingly fancy ones.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I can understand that. Those are a lot more fun.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

But can be counter-productive in a little story, where I want the name to fit but not stand out too much as a 'NAME'...