WHAT'S IN A NAME?

It seems everything.  I read this post: The story is not autobiographical (I would have beaten any bitch who messed with him...just kidding!), but perhaps using his name is inhibiting me in some way.  Maybe because I know that he was the bees' knees and so hot he sizzled, I'm not doing enough to convey this character's stellar qualities to reader—his gentleness, his drop-dead gorgeousness, his to-kill-for hotness.  Maybe I should rewrite the story and call him Paul or Simon.  Maybe.
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Published on August 15, 2011 01:00
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Aug 16, 2011 06:13AM

Lexy Harper This is what this post should say. Heaven knows why half of it is missing!


'WHAT'S IN A NAME?

It seems everything. I read a blog post 'What's in a Name' by the lovely Liane Spicer months ago about 'the power of a mere name to energize, galvanize, motivate and eradicate the heebie jeebies.' I, too, have discovered that there is indeed more in a name than I'd thought. My sexy, intelligent, too-good-looking-for-his-own-good first love, Oliver, died tragically young. I don't write fiction about my life or anyone else’s because it inhibits my writing, but I thought I would name the male protagonist in Envy after him, in remembrance.

The story is not autobiographical (I would have beaten any bitch who messed with him...just kidding!), but perhaps using his name is inhibiting me in some way. Maybe because I know that he was the bees' knees and so hot he sizzled, I’m not doing enough to convey this character's stellar qualities to reader—his gentleness, his drop-dead gorgeousness, his to-kill-for hotness. Maybe I should rewrite the story and call him Paul or Simon. Maybe.'


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