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beccaelizabethI spent today thus far deciding on names for characters I have no intention of writing.
... name meanings are relaxing.
So there's Alan and Nikeisha, and their sons Kieran and Niall. They're probably the Wyman family. They're super wealthy technocrats in a dark future where the AIs keep competing for brainspace with the born meat. Despite, or because of, early tragedy, Niall is the cutting edge brain of his generation and the great hope for freedom for humankind.
I'm thinking Wyman for the surname because it sounds like questions man but behindthename reckons it's from Wig-mund and means 'war protection' or war protector. Other sites think 'warrior' or war-man instead of war-mund. So if lucky it has the questions sound and the protector element.
I need a name for Nikeisha before she gets married.
... you know, if 'need' applies to imaginary people I'm making up because I'm between projects.
At the moment I'm trying to figure out where their story starts. Some of it is backstory to someone else's hero journey, but there's a lot of angles. I guess I figure out where the big fight is and who it is between and work backwards. Or I give them a story each and start with the olders and work through.
So is there anything anyone actually wants me to write?
Not that I have eager readers awaiting my further work.
It's weird going from college year, when they tell you what to write pretty much every week, to holidays, when my brain is my very own.
... I think maybe I prefer having someone to blame for the weird looking cyborg bunnies...
... name meanings are relaxing.
So there's Alan and Nikeisha, and their sons Kieran and Niall. They're probably the Wyman family. They're super wealthy technocrats in a dark future where the AIs keep competing for brainspace with the born meat. Despite, or because of, early tragedy, Niall is the cutting edge brain of his generation and the great hope for freedom for humankind.
I'm thinking Wyman for the surname because it sounds like questions man but behindthename reckons it's from Wig-mund and means 'war protection' or war protector. Other sites think 'warrior' or war-man instead of war-mund. So if lucky it has the questions sound and the protector element.
I need a name for Nikeisha before she gets married.
... you know, if 'need' applies to imaginary people I'm making up because I'm between projects.
At the moment I'm trying to figure out where their story starts. Some of it is backstory to someone else's hero journey, but there's a lot of angles. I guess I figure out where the big fight is and who it is between and work backwards. Or I give them a story each and start with the olders and work through.
So is there anything anyone actually wants me to write?
Not that I have eager readers awaiting my further work.
It's weird going from college year, when they tell you what to write pretty much every week, to holidays, when my brain is my very own.
... I think maybe I prefer having someone to blame for the weird looking cyborg bunnies...
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Date: 2012-06-02 02:52 pm (UTC)Part of me wants especially to hear Niall's story, particularly if there's something about his understanding of himself that is going to be necessarily transformed by his experiences, and because I have all sort of excessive illogical investment in the name Niall and its variations -- part of me wants to hear a story about Nikeisha, whether it's the going off demon-hunting and struggling with having left her kids behind or how she came to this place in her life, where the decision was made (and who was it made by?) to raise her son as an attempted copy of her husband with no room for himself...
I don't know, you've got a lot of possibilities there.
~ c.
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Date: 2012-06-04 02:44 am (UTC)