tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post4115449456444117740..comments2024-03-27T23:13:43.597-05:00Comments on Prairie Rose Publications: NAMES. LOVE 'EM OR HATE 'EM?Livia J Washburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05958199886826207363noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-13565738072514590862015-08-10T02:43:34.669-05:002015-08-10T02:43:34.669-05:00Hello Kaye, thanks for replying to my post. I can ...Hello Kaye, thanks for replying to my post. I can fully understand why you would want a pen name! So I take it your real name isn't Kaye then? Because I can't think of a nickname for that one! I don't think I've come across anyone who struggles to read a story if the names are not right! That's different. This Mike guy is really giving me a struggle, he hates his name but he&#jillmcdchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404306094725767275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-75283020243854830802015-08-10T02:38:05.498-05:002015-08-10T02:38:05.498-05:00Hi Celia, glad you liked the post, thanks. I like ...Hi Celia, glad you liked the post, thanks. I like your name, it's on my list for my heroines! I like the shortened version too it sounds unusual. Your mother's name is very unusual too? Is it a name which comes from any specific area of the States? Or is it from somewhere else? Do you know? And sorry but no, it's not that pretty is it. Thanks for commenting.jillmcdchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404306094725767275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-89402363864077648822015-08-10T02:34:53.547-05:002015-08-10T02:34:53.547-05:00Hi there Kristy. Thanks for coming today. I like t...Hi there Kristy. Thanks for coming today. I like that you use your ancestors names, mine have all got quite ordinary sounding names, nothing 'heroic' about any of them I'm afraid! I too hope my daughter doesn't hate her name but I fear she does. I named her Sarah Louise, but all through school and College she had all her friends call her Saz! Oh dear! I guess she too hates her jillmcdchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404306094725767275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-21336277686052722542015-08-10T02:31:34.125-05:002015-08-10T02:31:34.125-05:00Hello Sarah, thanks for dropping by. What an inter...Hello Sarah, thanks for dropping by. What an interesting reply! Some lovely names there. The only nickname I ever got was from my darling granddad, he used to call me Jilly, he was the only one who ever did, and if I ever get my kid's books published, I'm going to use it as my author name for them. I was looking at a list of stupid names the other day actually and saw those about the STDsjillmcdchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404306094725767275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-85034530485978144702015-08-10T02:25:28.193-05:002015-08-10T02:25:28.193-05:00Hi Doris, thanks for commenting, sorry I'm lat...Hi Doris, thanks for commenting, sorry I'm late, but time differences and all y'know! No we don't often have a choice with naming our characters do we? Only sometimes I get stuck, like with this Mike feller right now, I still haven't re-christened him! Thanks again.jillmcdchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404306094725767275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-37834942116552750132015-08-09T19:16:39.880-05:002015-08-09T19:16:39.880-05:00Wow. You hit on one of my *hot button* topics. *gr...Wow. You hit on one of my *hot button* topics. *grin*<br /><br />I write under a pen name for two reasons: 1) When I was first published, I was still teaching in a small school/community and people knew I wrote books, but most didn't know my pen name. Because I tend to write steamy stories, I didn't want my students to read my work. It would have been awkward. 2) I don't like my real Kaye Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13530735658588595790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-79152871889765665652015-08-09T16:20:37.402-05:002015-08-09T16:20:37.402-05:00What a fun post! I enjoyed it so much because I lo...What a fun post! I enjoyed it so much because I love names. I don't mind my name at all, and be glad you don't have two or you'd be called by the first if your mother was happy with you, but if you made her angry somehow, you'd become the daughter with two names. Mine is Celia--with is either very Hispanic or very British. Celias all over the place in Mexico and in Regency Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16272417114895975742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-10266961741846420532015-08-09T13:12:16.022-05:002015-08-09T13:12:16.022-05:00I like my name. It's a tie to my parents, so I...I like my name. It's a tie to my parents, so I appreciate that. And I guess I would hope that my kids wouldn't hate the names I gave them LOL. Choosing character names is very important, and if one isn't working I'll change it later. But I think you have to know a character's background too. If they're of German descent, a German name is in order, and so on. But when I'Kristy McCaffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17363740420272046549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-34594865879147136562015-08-09T08:32:10.984-05:002015-08-09T08:32:10.984-05:00My sister and I were named after women in our fami...My sister and I were named after women in our family history. My sister, Mary Elizabeth, was named after our paternal great grandmother. My name Sarah Jane came from our maternal great grandmother. I love that my name has history. The weird thing is, our dad was into nick names. Mary was called Mamie (a name which she hates and no one calls her that now.) Pop gave me the nickname of Sal (some Sarah J. McNealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17749991094677728042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927727476793944291.post-38256261193562274442015-08-09T08:03:01.543-05:002015-08-09T08:03:01.543-05:00I used to think I didn't like my given name, b...I used to think I didn't like my given name, but I got over it. Other than being called Dori, I'm okay with Doris. But because I write fiction also, I took a pen name Angela Raines. (That name came to me and just stuck).<br /><br />As to character names, I've changed a few. Mostly due to the name not being appropriate to the time frame. Still, for the most part they seem happy with Renaissance Womenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09045401344374224512noreply@blogger.com