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

[winter]

Well, Weber gets a free pass out of the "popular-names-only" club on the basis of Honor's name alone. *googles* Ooh, and from the last name she sounds Russian, which is fair enough. On top of that, a patronymic-derived surname with the right gender - major brownie points for Mr Weber. I think I should maybe read more Honor ;)

[meril.livejournal.com]

He does do interesting things with names. Some of them work better than others. Common first names are actually used for more than one character--there are a lot of Michaels around, for instance.