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		By: Graeme Ing		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graeme Ing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/writing-craft/whats-in-a-name-book-characters/#comment-231&quot;&gt;Gwen Gardner&lt;/a&gt;.

Yes, Gwen, (how else could you spell you name?), your example is how names must lend authenticity. It wouldn&#039;t do to have Victorians named Rain and Summer (AFAIK). Charity is a good staple name that sounds very believable. In your book &quot;Givin&#039; up the Ghost&quot;, I loved your protag&#039;s name: Indigo - it really draws attention to the uniqueness of your main character, as well as giving a nod to the New Age concept of Indigo children.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/writing-craft/whats-in-a-name-book-characters/#comment-231">Gwen Gardner</a>.</p>
<p>Yes, Gwen, (how else could you spell you name?), your example is how names must lend authenticity. It wouldn&#8217;t do to have Victorians named Rain and Summer (AFAIK). Charity is a good staple name that sounds very believable. In your book &#8220;Givin&#8217; up the Ghost&#8221;, I loved your protag&#8217;s name: Indigo &#8211; it really draws attention to the uniqueness of your main character, as well as giving a nod to the New Age concept of Indigo children.</p>
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		By: Gwen Gardner		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I never realized when reading OOD that you did that with the names. They worked for me. The harsher sounding names for the harsher characters. In the novella I&#039;m writing, the ghosts are all Victorian, so I tried to pick Victorian names like Charity, etc.

All those spellings of your name are so funny! A lot of people don&#039;t know how to spell my name either.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never realized when reading OOD that you did that with the names. They worked for me. The harsher sounding names for the harsher characters. In the novella I&#8217;m writing, the ghosts are all Victorian, so I tried to pick Victorian names like Charity, etc.</p>
<p>All those spellings of your name are so funny! A lot of people don&#8217;t know how to spell my name either.</p>
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		By: Christine Rains		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I do pick names for their meanings. Other times, characters name themselves. I think it amusing that no one is consistently spelling your name (right or wrong!). I have a friend that did this same Starbucks experiment as you. Her name is Phoenix. Traditional spelling. No one could spell it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes I do pick names for their meanings. Other times, characters name themselves. I think it amusing that no one is consistently spelling your name (right or wrong!). I have a friend that did this same Starbucks experiment as you. Her name is Phoenix. Traditional spelling. No one could spell it.</p>
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		By: Graeme		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/writing-craft/whats-in-a-name-book-characters/#comment-228&quot;&gt;Heather Day Gilbert&lt;/a&gt;.

There&#039;s another whole debate there: What would we change our own name to? Not surprisingly, I envy simple names like Dave or Peter, but I&#039;m happy with my name. It can be fun to meet people and think, &quot;you&#039;re not a Buster, or a Bridget.&quot; Heather is a great name. Looking back at the Starbucks efforts, Graghm is the strangest. Where did they get the 2nd G from? I&#039;ve got to name one of my characters Graghm now. :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/writing-craft/whats-in-a-name-book-characters/#comment-228">Heather Day Gilbert</a>.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s another whole debate there: What would we change our own name to? Not surprisingly, I envy simple names like Dave or Peter, but I&#8217;m happy with my name. It can be fun to meet people and think, &#8220;you&#8217;re not a Buster, or a Bridget.&#8221; Heather is a great name. Looking back at the Starbucks efforts, Graghm is the strangest. Where did they get the 2nd G from? I&#8217;ve got to name one of my characters Graghm now. 🙂</p>
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		By: Heather Day Gilbert		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh my goodness, someone literally spelled it &quot;GramH?&quot; Oh dearie. I love the spelling of your name! I think you should just spell it out for those Starbucks workers--give them a cool new name to remember.

And you&#039;re so right about the connotations w/names. Tolkien was definitely a master-namer...didn&#039;t he use old legends/myths or something when naming characters?

Sometimes I sit around and wonder, if I were re-naming mySELF, what would it be? I don&#039;t feel like a &quot;Heather&quot; most of the time. I feel more serious than a &quot;Heather.&quot; BUT heather as a plant is tough, thrives in bad soil...yet is delicate-looking. I&#039;m trying to embrace my name!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh my goodness, someone literally spelled it &#8220;GramH?&#8221; Oh dearie. I love the spelling of your name! I think you should just spell it out for those Starbucks workers&#8211;give them a cool new name to remember.</p>
<p>And you&#8217;re so right about the connotations w/names. Tolkien was definitely a master-namer&#8230;didn&#8217;t he use old legends/myths or something when naming characters?</p>
<p>Sometimes I sit around and wonder, if I were re-naming mySELF, what would it be? I don&#8217;t feel like a &#8220;Heather&#8221; most of the time. I feel more serious than a &#8220;Heather.&#8221; BUT heather as a plant is tough, thrives in bad soil&#8230;yet is delicate-looking. I&#8217;m trying to embrace my name!</p>
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		By: Angela Brown		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is very interesting how we&#039;ve come to associate names with certain thoughts, ideas or even emotions.

It is also rather laughter-inducing the various ways your name gets butchered in writing :-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is very interesting how we&#8217;ve come to associate names with certain thoughts, ideas or even emotions.</p>
<p>It is also rather laughter-inducing the various ways your name gets butchered in writing 🙂</p>
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