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Today’s question is:
Would you prefer a character name after you or choose a character’s name?
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Personally, I would rather get to choose a name. I have read a book with my whole name (Jenny Blake) and it pulls me out of the book. She was a side character so not in it a lot but enough that I don’t want to be a main character. Choosing a name is always fun. I have done it a few times and it’s always fun seeing the name I choose in the book.
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I would love to see my name in a book. Not entirely sure why, maybe to leave a mark in history. 😀
I can understand that. I think seeing my name was interesting (its not an uncommon name) it was in a historical and only a side character. One interesting time was seeing the name Thelma Blake as the wife of a murder victim and while not main character she was in that book and a couple more in the series. Thelma Blake was the name of Dad’s sister who died at about 14 or 16 from diphtheria and then my sister who I never met would have been Thelma Joy Blake (known as Joy) so it was a little jolt but reading how feisty this lady was it felt like they both got a life in fiction.
I have read books with characters named ‘Beth’, but usually that is short for Elizabeth or Bethany. It would be strange if it was my full name, but I don’t mind if it is just the first name.
It could be fun to choose a character’s name. I’ve never done that for an author before.
Some authors have contests where you can suggest a name for a character. There are others that give the opportunity be a character in a book. Like you I don’t mine Jenny or seeing Blake just don’t want both together.