Comments - Choosing names for characters in a novel - Pauline Rowson explains how she does it in her crime novels - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T23:05:31Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=537324%3ABlogPost%3A241232&xn_auth=noI don't suppose too many read…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-12:537324:Comment:2414982010-07-12T18:39:01.344ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
I don't suppose too many readers would know about a merkin. It raises some interesting questions, though.
I don't suppose too many readers would know about a merkin. It raises some interesting questions, though. I have lots of fun playing wi…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-12:537324:Comment:2414932010-07-12T18:08:51.302ZJon Loomishttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JonLoomis
I have lots of fun playing with names. I take a Dickensian approach, and often go for names that fit the character in some fairly concrete (or ironic) way. So, in HIGH SEASON, the cross-dressing TV preacher whose body is found--in drag--on a public beach is named Reverend Ron Merkin. A merkin is a Victorian pubic wig, of course, worn mostly by wealthy women whose body hair had fallen out as a result of the practice of treating syphilis with potent doses of mercury. And so on.
I have lots of fun playing with names. I take a Dickensian approach, and often go for names that fit the character in some fairly concrete (or ironic) way. So, in HIGH SEASON, the cross-dressing TV preacher whose body is found--in drag--on a public beach is named Reverend Ron Merkin. A merkin is a Victorian pubic wig, of course, worn mostly by wealthy women whose body hair had fallen out as a result of the practice of treating syphilis with potent doses of mercury. And so on. Not much help when your books…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-07-12:537324:Comment:2414912010-07-12T17:43:14.592ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Not much help when your books are set in Japan.
Not much help when your books are set in Japan.