I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.
I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.
My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
I like naming characters.
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
I make up names for people all the time - it's part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do.
In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.
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