On the Rouge Wave II there has been a discussion about how to name characters.
I’m sorry to admit that I never put much effort in my names. We get our names as infants when the name cannot possibly tell us something about who we are. So my characters just got their names.
But just as much as a dialog in a movie script does not reflect how we speak in real life, no mother and father were there to give the character a name as an infant.
I should put more effort in my names.
Not only do I avoid giving a character an involuntarily background by giving a Nazi a Jewish name, I can also add extra meaning. And don’t despise the value of a name that sound well and has a good taste in the mouth.
In what is to become my next project I did put effort in the names when I drafted the idea the first time. But without really thinking.
I used names from the Bible. It was Markus, Lukas, Johannes and Maria.
So far so good.
Except for the fact that an English Bible names them Mark, Luke, John and Mary.
And that the characters in my story had nothing to do with the characters that named them.
It just felt cool and deep.
Yeah, great. Deep.
Deep?!
Get real! The first thing I’m going to do with that project is to change the names.
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