Comments on: Back at It http://www.elsewhither.com/back-at-it/ Charlie Hills just writing about writing Sun, 02 Apr 2017 03:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.6 By: Charlie http://www.elsewhither.com/back-at-it/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:16:15 +0000 http://www.elsewhither.com/?p=1290#comment-739 Was it Occulis Jones? If so, then that would fit.

I also take it that you didn't like Gumshoe Macbeth?

]]> By: Charlie http://www.elsewhither.com/back-at-it/comment-page-1/#comment-738 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:15:28 +0000 http://www.elsewhither.com/?p=1290#comment-738 If Kerwin is too close to Kermit you could always give it a different spelling. Like Cerwyn. Even though you'll be right back to your original pronunciation problem.

]]> By: Jason http://www.elsewhither.com/back-at-it/comment-page-1/#comment-737 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:02:25 +0000 http://www.elsewhither.com/?p=1290#comment-737 It's hard to like a protagonist named "Buttzinger Zeitgeist." Most of the time.

I have the same problem with names. In one of my books, 40 people have normal names, and then there's a guy named Occulis. What the hell. He doesn't even fit.

]]> By: Steve - Kestrel's Aerie http://www.elsewhither.com/back-at-it/comment-page-1/#comment-736 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:13:03 +0000 http://www.elsewhither.com/?p=1290#comment-736 My current WIP (which is also my 2010 NaNo novel) is one in which I changed the MC's name. The original name was just a bunch of letters I put together. Unfortunately, pronunciation was a bit of a crapshoot: one of my alpha readers had a completely different (and logical) pronunciation from mine. So now the MC is Connor. And, truth be told, I'm not exactly thrilled with that name. (In case you're curious, I've considered Kerwin, too, but that's too close to Kermit. The frog.)

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