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As of today, the second character in my epic superhero novel goes by the name Tuesday Aiken. I decided that I needed to stop mucking about and find some surnames for my characters, and immediately sought my favourite resource: BehindTheName.com. BehindTheName also happens to have a side-site, BehindTheSurname, which I'm scanning at the moment for Ian's possible last name, but if I fail to find anything useful, I'll trek back to the regular site--there are plenty of good surnames being used as first names these days (I got my Harry Potter OC's name, Morcant Ellis, merely from looking over the Welsh name list that I'd saved to my computer, because I often use Welsh for names in fantasy chain stories and the very occasional RP).
Something I'm finding very amusing at the moment: the names Black and Blake. According to the site, either name "means either "black" (from Old English blœc) or "pale" (from Old English blac). It could refer to a person with a pale or a dark comlexion, or a person who worked with black dye". Words with contradictory meanings amuse me, such as "cleave", which means both "to split or seperate" and "to adhere or stick fast"--also from two very similar Anglo Saxon words--cleofan and cleofian. Only in English...
In other, related, news (I try to keep LiveJournal entries on some sort of topic), I'm beginning to be worried that I might not be able to pull this thing off--at least not for several years. Firstly, Ian is a high school English teacher at a slightly above-average (meaning: not really abysmal) school in Boston. Right, so I'm fifteen and have been to public school once in my life: I have no idea how that sort of thing goes. Neither do I know anything about the inner workings of the indie music world essential for Tuesday's part of the story. (I do, however, have a lovely, if vague, little scene in my head involving Tuesday, lots of pudding, and Jane Austen as comfort reading.) I suppose for now I should mainly concentrate on forming the plot, writing random character vignettes from time to time, and work on The Song Will Remain and Still the Autumn until I finally have a concrete writing style and the stories sound, from beginning to end, as if they were written by the same person, instead of more than one or someone with too many personalities (well, with me, the latter isn't entirely impossible).
Off topic side note: Arbitrary nausea is horrid.
Off topic side note II: The Random Name Generator is intensely fun and somewhat addictive. I've got the box checked for "goth" at the moment, and am coming up with some really laughable stuff, such as "DecemberIllusion Tanith" and "Xander Albion Draco OnyxSmoke". (Those would make a excellent goth!Sue/Stu names.) This might, however, be a pretty decent way to come up with names for inconsequential background characters in Potterfic. (Not with the goth button on, though--"Dante GraeViper Mordred MauveBlaze" just isn't...right, you know? Although I do rather like the name "Mordred".)
Something I'm finding very amusing at the moment: the names Black and Blake. According to the site, either name "means either "black" (from Old English blœc) or "pale" (from Old English blac). It could refer to a person with a pale or a dark comlexion, or a person who worked with black dye". Words with contradictory meanings amuse me, such as "cleave", which means both "to split or seperate" and "to adhere or stick fast"--also from two very similar Anglo Saxon words--cleofan and cleofian. Only in English...
In other, related, news (I try to keep LiveJournal entries on some sort of topic), I'm beginning to be worried that I might not be able to pull this thing off--at least not for several years. Firstly, Ian is a high school English teacher at a slightly above-average (meaning: not really abysmal) school in Boston. Right, so I'm fifteen and have been to public school once in my life: I have no idea how that sort of thing goes. Neither do I know anything about the inner workings of the indie music world essential for Tuesday's part of the story. (I do, however, have a lovely, if vague, little scene in my head involving Tuesday, lots of pudding, and Jane Austen as comfort reading.) I suppose for now I should mainly concentrate on forming the plot, writing random character vignettes from time to time, and work on The Song Will Remain and Still the Autumn until I finally have a concrete writing style and the stories sound, from beginning to end, as if they were written by the same person, instead of more than one or someone with too many personalities (well, with me, the latter isn't entirely impossible).
Off topic side note: Arbitrary nausea is horrid.
Off topic side note II: The Random Name Generator is intensely fun and somewhat addictive. I've got the box checked for "goth" at the moment, and am coming up with some really laughable stuff, such as "DecemberIllusion Tanith" and "Xander Albion Draco OnyxSmoke". (Those would make a excellent goth!Sue/Stu names.) This might, however, be a pretty decent way to come up with names for inconsequential background characters in Potterfic. (Not with the goth button on, though--"Dante GraeViper Mordred MauveBlaze" just isn't...right, you know? Although I do rather like the name "Mordred".)
