I swear I've started this reply about 4 times and something always somes up right in the middle!
Anna is a lovely name, I really like your reasoning. Swedish and Welsh. that's some combination! There are so many pretty welsh names, Meagan, Rhiannon and Eleri (pronounced E- LAIR-i) and Bethan.
Greta like from the Sound of Music. That is awesome. I loved that movie so much, still do really. I went to Salzburg in the summer and spent the whole day is feverish excitement and singing under my breath...
My LJ name is a combination of a nickname I had when I was younger and my full name. I think it's pretty easy to work out, but I kinda like having a pseudonym. It's pretty unique too, which helps. And I didn't want anything too different from my namename as I thought I would get confused!
My housemates all have LJ names now, Sal because in RL me and her have names that sound almost identical.
Belle beaucse its part of her name and she reminds me of Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
Wren because it's my nickname for her, it rhymes with her name.
My friend Mal mentioned in this post has a good solid one syllable nme in real life, and there is a character on a tv show we both like called Mal so I thought he would apprciate it!
Li is part of my friends real name, but she goes by her middle name in Rl so no one knows that, and Cat because it's similar to her real name and we dressed up as cats last Halloween.
I think names are so important, naming characters is the hardest part of writing fiction I think, because names have so many associations.
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Date: 2008-10-26 04:43 pm (UTC)Anna is a lovely name, I really like your reasoning. Swedish and Welsh. that's some combination! There are so many pretty welsh names, Meagan, Rhiannon and Eleri (pronounced E- LAIR-i) and Bethan.
Greta like from the Sound of Music. That is awesome. I loved that movie so much, still do really. I went to Salzburg in the summer and spent the whole day is feverish excitement and singing under my breath...
My LJ name is a combination of a nickname I had when I was younger and my full name. I think it's pretty easy to work out, but I kinda like having a pseudonym. It's pretty unique too, which helps. And I didn't want anything too different from my namename as I thought I would get confused!
My housemates all have LJ names now, Sal because in RL me and her have names that sound almost identical.
Belle beaucse its part of her name and she reminds me of Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
Wren because it's my nickname for her, it rhymes with her name.
My friend Mal mentioned in this post has a good solid one syllable nme in real life, and there is a character on a tv show we both like called Mal so I thought he would apprciate it!
Li is part of my friends real name, but she goes by her middle name in Rl so no one knows that, and Cat because it's similar to her real name and we dressed up as cats last Halloween.
I think names are so important, naming characters is the hardest part of writing fiction I think, because names have so many associations.
Lal xx