Part 29 of August and #WordWeavers meme regarding Blorbo From My WIP [Image from @BranwenOShea@writing.exchange ]

SC POV: What's your favorite color to wear?

#WordWeavers Aug 29 - SC POV: What's your favorite color to wear?

Morganna: What do you think?

#WordWeavers Aug 28: unique character names, or use "real world" names?

This is a poser. My first three books are set in Anglo dominant cultures so names not an issue. The aliens in Our Child of the Stars give names like Thunder Over Mountains, Little Glowing Blue Frog, etc.

My great unpublished sci-fi novel - full names exist but the narrator uses nicknames. I'm trying to figure out the naming conventions for my sentient lizards on a generation ship novel.

#WordWeavers 29Aug—SC POV: What's your favorite color to wear?

"I don't really have a preference," Caius said. "Although, I'm not overly fond of bright colors. I'll wear any color, but a darker hue of it. Forest green, midnight blue, burgundy, and such."

"You look *delicious* in burgundy," Francis said.

Caius's face softened with a shy smile. "Thank you."

Noting that Caius was wearing burgundy at that moment, the interviewer kindly thanked them for their time and left the room.

#WordWeavers 29/8: SC POV: What's your favourite colour to wear?
Railu: I was a Dawnsinger in my formative years, so I only wore white. Then I was a slave and only allowed muted colours. Once I was finally free again, and finding my own life, I found that I wanted to embrace colour. Not any one colour but the whole spectrum.
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#WordWeavers 2025.08.23 — Do you ever worry that your books may offend others or be banned?

My recent work is on the more spicy side, with women choosing partners and what they enjoy, mentions of contraceptives, woman-led decisions about abortion in a society where it's illegal, men in gender reversed roles, and in some cases religion treated as mental illness. The internal censor is fighting back big time!!!

So… maybe?

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#WordWeavers 8/29. SC POV: What's your favourite colour to wear?

Lauren: Whatever's fashionable.

#WordWeavers 25-08-28 Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

Generally I create them.

Names have meaning,

Like the sadist couple from The Cantata of the Wild Soul

Linue Arkay, her name is a corruption of the name Nimue. She is a reflection of women that choose to harm other women for their own pleasure and ends. She commits acts of sadism with, and is married to...

Patri Arkay, I wasn't subtle with his name as patriarchy rarely is subtle with its violence and hate. Before reveling in the pain of a chained up Parthia, he abused Thaur Frik, just as patriarchy also harms men.

Names have meaning.

#WordWeavers Aug 28
Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

I do both, depending on the societies in question. They have different histories and origins.

#WordWeavers 28Aug—Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

I write contemporary fiction set in real places, so of course I’ll use real names. I’ll sometimes go to baby name sites to find what was popular x years ago to use for a character that is x years old in the time the book takes place

#WordWeavers 8/28 - Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

I do create unique character names for any setting that isn't a conventional, mostly warped modern setting. Human characters tend to get real world names, I've gone with mostly Irish and Scottish names for my partial collapse zombie story which has an alternative history framework. The Irish and Scottish immigrants settled in Kansas more so than Germans, it made sense in this case.

In my Astral Kingdom set story, character names are all fantastical: Wetryxstray, Zomazar, Nejitemi (light Japanese influence), Jumhaeg, etc. For worlds where magic and tech commingle, along with humanoid beings, I mimic certain real world names on occasion. Just to make it seem like its own unique world, while having a splash of the familiar.

#WordWeavers 28: Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

My WIPs are set in an alternate world in the multiverse partly so I don't need to completely invent the planetary geography and thousands of years of literary refs.
They had AN Alexander and A Chinggis. Their Augustus may not have been originally Octavian, and possibly not a Julius. Etc. They had a Karl the Great who was not quite our Charlemagne.

In the story timeline I use name components from our world 1/n

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8/28. Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

All real-world. The American west of the 1800’s had some goofy-sounding names. But. I avoid those and stick to names more comfortable for 21st century readers.

#WordWeavers 28 Aug: Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

Mostly real world, because most of my stories take place in this-world-plus-changes settings. But I love assigning names that have secret extra meaning for the characters & suit their personality.

Sometimes characters come to me with a name already attached. Some don't. One character went through five names. (They were genderfluid and it took me four rewrites to recognize it.)

#WordWeavers 28 Aug: Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

Depends on the story, but usually real-world names. Sometimes there are deep significance to the names; other times I call someone "Alice" because it was important to emphasize that the great wizard known as Dr. Don't is also, well, an Alice.

#WordWeavers Day 28: Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

So far all the names are real-world. I don't think I spend too much time thinking about the names. I tend to pick ones that are simple to enunciate from whatever region the character is from.