I was talking to someone earlier today, and we got off on the subject of names. She likes old fashioned names, and some of the ones she listed as part of her favorite names list were pretty cute, even though I'd never heard of one of them before. I might have seen the name in a book before, just never knew how to pronounce it. But it sounded pretty when she pronounced it.
She made me think of my method of choosing names. As I've said before, I usually choose names that go with the character's personality, or I pick the name and the personality is shaped around the name. And, I usually try to go with names that are from the time period I'm writing about. It's usually a fun task, and I'll come up with some interesting combinations for first and middle names. However, I've often wondered whether or not the name suits the character. When instances like that arise, what do you do? And does it come up often? Or every once and a while?
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