The next week is my autumn holiday. Wonderful!
I have been busy planning my second cosy mystery, The Halloween Murderer, featuring Constable Archibald Primrose and Rhapsody Gershwin again. I have a fairly clear overview of the plot, the place and the characters so I expect I´ll begin writing the first scenes this weekend.
And with regard to those characters, it will hardly come as a surprise that I have had a lot of fun selecting their names. (Remember, you can enlarge the picture by clicking on it.) My own table is a bit more detailed than this one. No need to tell you too much yet, but in my table I have all this information in
one page plus colour codes for victims, suspects and villagers who are into witchcraft.
Which name is your favourite?
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Dorte - Oh, Those are terrific names!! I am so,so eager to read your mystery :-). I know it'll be wonderful.
I love the name Iris Southcliffe. This sounds like it's going to be an intriguing read. Best of luck.
Mason
Thoughts in Progress
You are so organized! I love the flower names.
Margot: I have discovered some time ago that to me, a character does not come alive until he or she has a name. It is such an important part of the writing that I feel much more confident once I have named my characters.
Mason: thank you.
Beth: I have to be organized when I write, or I´ll never get anywhere. I am glad you saw one of my little name games.
I'm so looking forward to this. My favourite name? Hmm, difficult.
Tracy: but I know what *my* favourite is - though I am happy I´ll be going to write it, not say it aloud :D
They're all fantastic names - I'm spoilt for choice. Maybe Rev Sheridan Thwing is my favourite because it's so unusual. Not that the others are ordinary!
Let me know when the cozy I just reviewed comes out, I'll be glad to read the whole thing and give it a review.
CD
Margaret: oh, you have hit my own favourite!
Clarissa: thank you! I wish I could give you a date, but I´ll have to sell it first.
Lots of great names, but I think I might be partial to Rhapsody Gershwin. Lotus and Poppy are especially nice, too.
Thank you, Kelly.
Rhapsody is a great name - I never forget what she is like when I write about her.
And the names Lotus and Poppy also make it easy for me to ´see´ their personalities.
I love a bit of supernatural in a mystery! The witchcraft sounds intriguing.
Elizabeth: I thought witchcraft suited a Halloween story, and I hope I can make it interesting though I don´t know very much about the subject yet.
Oh, I love that Darwin Featherstone is a slightly effeminate male - nice touch!
Vanda: and I love readers who get my little jokes ;D
another tale about names:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2010/oct/19/un-savory-roald-dahl-greene?
:)
Pia: but that is wonderful!
Dr So Wat - I don´t think I could take him very seriously :D
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