Hunter Forsyth
Naming characters is not something I do casually. As readers, we see characters’ names again and again and again, we hear these sounds in our brains all throughout the narrative, we associate them with words, with ideas. So I think names are an opportunity to establish associations and expectations, to make readers feel something about the characters. For example, Hunter—at birth this person was saddled with this title, something he’d announce to every stranger he’ll ever meet: I’m a man who hunts. And Forsythe—a person who has every confidence in his own foresight, who couldn't imagine that he could be wrong about his anticipatation of the future.
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