On the naming of characters

[winter]

I'm trolling babynames sites, and there are such a lot of names that are just begging to be used in fiction. Aldona, Indré, Frauke, Berenika, Larissa - why don't they appear more often? It seems like anyone writing, say, HP fic uses the same three names all over again. Why not have a Nicodemus Malfoy, Theodosia Black, Malvina Weasley? Dare to leaf through that baby names book, people ;)

NaNo news: Part 9 and another Interlude - tape transcript this time. I'm a little behind, but I'm damn proud of Part 9 - it might not look like much, but it's the first time I've written an almost 5K-word action scene that actually has action in it. Normally, I can't write action at all.

Four hours until Vampires. Mrr. Krolock 4EVA.

Comments

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

>>Larissa

No good. Everyone (or at least the ones with some movie culture) will have Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago playing in their minds, the rest will just think of Ms Croft :P

Also, check this for a good laugh:
http://notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html

[winter]

They're pronounced differently - Larissa starts with an Ł, sort of an English W sound (as in wangst).

Heh, I have that site bookmarked to check for updates :)

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

Larissa Fyodorovna, Lara for short :P