I have a really illustrative story about a guy who used to work in marketing for beer companies and quit to go hunt terrorists with the CIA, because it was less stressful. He said his boss (at Madison Ave company) had a heart attack at work because a proposal was 5 minutes late.
Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.
Willow ,'Showtime'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Volans - Aug 05, 2007 4:38:12 am PDT #9220 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Susan W. - Aug 05, 2007 7:54:12 pm PDT #9221 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Anyone want to help me name a secondary character? Normally this isn't a problem for me, but she's stubbornly nameless.
Her bio and description: She's a Lowland Scot of good family (gentry or minor nobility), born around 1770 (she's in her 30's when we meet her). She's intelligent and wryly witty, and better educated than the average woman of her time. Extremely proper and reserved in public, reveals earthy sensuality in bed with my protagonist--one of her roles in the story is as his confidante/fuckbuddy, though I don't think they're each other's One True Love. She's taller than average, pretty but not beautiful, yellow blonde hair and brown eyes.
Names she CAN'T have to avoid duplication: Charlotte, Anna, Genevieve, Lavinia, Emma, Catherine. She'll share a lot of screen time with the first three, so it can't even be close to one of those.
Any ideas? I'm only worried about her first name for now--if I can just pin that down, it's easy enough to pick out a last name that matches and works with her background.
Scrappy - Aug 05, 2007 8:01:40 pm PDT #9222 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Julia? Marianne? Belle? Clara?
P.M. Marc - Aug 05, 2007 8:02:37 pm PDT #9223 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Elizabeth, Margeret, Elinor, Helen.
Typo Boy - Aug 05, 2007 8:14:37 pm PDT #9224 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Susan, Rose, Gwendolyn,Gail, Lynda,Loretta, Heather,Maira, Moira, Anice or Annabella,Cora
Ah just though of an easier answer. A quick google gives an a site for scottish baby names. One of them will have to work. Not that the Scots did not borrow names from the English, and Irish and French if it came to that. [link]
Laga - Aug 05, 2007 8:16:23 pm PDT #9225 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Fionnula
Daisy Jane - Aug 05, 2007 8:18:09 pm PDT #9226 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I like Heather (for obvious reasons)
sumi - Aug 05, 2007 8:22:16 pm PDT #9227 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I think Heather is too modern.
Are there more Scots names that would be appropriate?
Typo Boy - Aug 05, 2007 8:24:13 pm PDT #9228 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well since I only put in the link on my third edit I'll repeat it here-subsite for scottish baby name (note ads on this site are pretty obviously trying to plant spyware):
Susan W. - Aug 05, 2007 8:27:56 pm PDT #9229 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thanks for the help! I think she's going to be Margaret. It suits her, and my protagonist, who's taken up residence in a corner of my brain and made himself at home since I started this manuscript, is nodding sagely and agreeing that's her name.
(Heather is lovely, but I don't think it was in use in the 18th century.)