Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Writers get to invent the names

One of the pleasures (duties) that writers have is coming up with  more-or-less appropriate names for their characters. Two of my favorite authors, Louis Lamour and P. G. Wodehouse, were artists in naming their people. Think about what you might invent if you were to write. For example, if I were to write a detective novel, my hero might be named Fetlock Frampton. I mean, a shamus with a name like that has to be tough.

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