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chaoticsunrise · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **chaoticsunrise** on Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:37 am

On Names! [:

Which is best?

Miraiti Tekajene Aislinn Reindl?
Miranda Maitaislinn Tekajene Reindl?
Miraislinn Maiti Tekajene Reindl?
Miranda Maislinn Tekajene Reindl?
Miraislinn Maitekajene Reindl?
Mirandalinn Maiti Tekajene Reindl?

Smokescreen · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Smokescreen** on Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:48 am

Wow. I'm not even sure what I just read, I sure know I can't un-read it. The names all look so needlessly complicated, coming at you brandishing consonants like a shiv just hoping you take the time to sound them out and then when you are trying to work that word stew around in your mouth. STAB! I don't know. Maybe shorten them a tad. Tekajene sounds like a Korean medicine to prevent one's bowels from being intemperate. Miraiti is cute, nice and flows well. Maitekajene...whoo boy. Um...I'd say Miraiti Tekajene Aislinn Reindl, not to say it's best just less offensive to process. Hope this helps! Be lucky!

chaoticsunrise · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **chaoticsunrise** on Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:25 pm

I like complicated names. They seem so much better than quick easy names because they really make an impression on people. And, I think I am right, seeing as you "can't un-read" it.

I'm not quite sure if I should thank you for helping, or be offended... I think I'm just gonna say thanks. [:

And, I like that one too.. Just trying to pick one.. Hmm.

UnderINK · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **UnderINK** on Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:47 am

That's complicated to the point I quit reading the name after the second word. I don't even want to try to sit and pronounce it. I vote none of them.

The first one if you REALLY have to use one of them, but ugh.

Prose · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Prose** on Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:50 am

I have to agree with UnderInk. You should go back and look at smaller and more simple suggestions. The less the reader has to think about the name of your character and the more naturally fluid it comes to mind, the easier it is for them to associate them with the actions of your characters, and well... remember that character as well.

Just be simple.

Raya · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Raya** on Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:59 am

I'm sorry, but I have to agree with everyone else. They're just far too busy, and I think the impression they leave is not the one you're looking for. If I had to pick, I would say go with the first one but drop the Tekajene. I have nothing against four names in principle (my kids both have two middle names), but when every name is multi-syllabic AND filled with vowels AND consonants AND unique AND merging several names into one, it's really just too much, IMO.

Ylanne · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Ylanne** on Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:17 pm

I also agree. I'd read some articles on naming conventions from the language/culture whose names you are trying to emulate, in addition to perhaps considering that you have put so much work into this one character that she (he?) has begun to take on almost mythical importance for you?

chaoticsunrise · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **chaoticsunrise** on Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:51 am

Yea.. The character in question is quite important.
But, then again, all my characters have an importance to me. I see them as real people. I get in touch with their emotions and feel things throughout the role plays I help write..
I see that no one seems to like the names though... so.. >_>;;

Ylanne · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **Ylanne** on Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:00 pm

There is a fine line to draw between being emotionally connected to your characters - if you didn't, I'd say you were a heartless writer, and my own writing is character-driven, so this is a good thing - and becoming almost, for lack of a better word, obsessed with any one or another character. This can morph into a sort of "Mary Sue" quality when it goes too far, when the writer completely identifies with one of his/her own characters and almost lives/fantasizes him/herself through this character - this is called a self-insertion, or sometimes, an idealized self-insertion. But note the operative word here: can. Does not mean it always is, necessarily, but that this is a danger one can run into.

RaeRaeButterfly · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **RaeRaeButterfly** on Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:27 pm

I'd say the first one! And I hate to disagree with people but..I'm going too have too. You don't have to say it out loud unless you want to, and they are prety names, But I diddn't come onto this thread and comment to fight. But good names, Linn :)

chaoticsunrise · **Tips:** 0.00 INK by **chaoticsunrise** on Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:21 pm

I've decided on one....

Mirandalinn Maiti Tekajene Reindl.

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