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Choosing names for your characters - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 02-15-2011

I believe that Jerry Pournelle once said that while he thinks long and hard about the names of his major characters, he uses the phone book for the names of minor characters.

Choosing names for your characters - Sev - 02-27-2011

Another question about names for The Man and the other authors, if I may: Have any of you had issues with a 'real-life' person complaining about the character that had 'their' name?
For example if some CPA from Des Moine named Jeremy Bolton were to complain. Would it be trivial? Serious?
Just something I've wondered about since I read a charactor with my name in a book -- he was a Good Guy so I didn't mind, but . . . Smile

Thanks!!

Sev

Choosing names for your characters - Ken Valentine - 02-28-2011

Sev Wrote:Another question about names for The Man and the other authors, if I may: Have any of you had issues with a 'real-life' person complaining about the character that had 'their' name?
For example if some CPA from Des Moine named Jeremy Bolton were to complain. Would it be trivial? Serious?
Just something I've wondered about since I read a charactor with my name in a book -- he was a Good Guy so I didn't mind, but . . . Smile

Thanks!!

Sev
I would imagine that some people wouldn't know, some people wouldn't care, and some people would get a kick out of it.

For example, there's a character in the Harry Potter novels named Peter Pettigrew -- also known as "Wormtail." Navy Commander "Pete" Pettigrew was a flying consultant for the movie Top Gun.

Ken V.