Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge
Each Wednesday from January 9 – December 18, 2019, Long and Short Reviews is hosting a weekly blog hop.
Blogging is a fun way to meet people and get to know them. We’re offering a weekly “prompt” for authors, non-authors, bookish folks and others to share something weekly and gain new friends and visitors to the blog. There’s no pressure to write something every week (though it should be fun and a challenge), but we do ask that if you do post something, you share your link on the weekly post we’ll put up at our site (it will be the top post on the home page each Wednesday morning) — the link list will be open for new links for 48 hours. Other bloggers will also share their links and you can hop over and see what they have to share.
January 30th – Characters I’d Name a Baby After
Ha! This is a funny question because when I was pregnant with my son (and didn’t yet know he was a boy) if he was a girl, I wanted to name him Mina Gabrielle. Mina, of course, from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (though her full name was Wilhelmina and I didn’t want that), and Gabrielle after Lestat’s mother in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. I was a tad bit obsessed with vampire novels, can you tell? I think I would still name a girl Gabrielle because it’s such a pretty name.
I ended up naming him Cain Evan, and though Cain is the first vampire in some vampire mythologies, it didn’t come from that. It didn’t really come from the Bible either, though I happened to be reading Beowulf at the time and Grendel was described as being Cain’s descendant. That’s where I got the name from and in that story it WAS referring to the Biblical Cain so…it’s Biblical by the way of fiction? And, you’re going to laugh very hard (and I’m going to show my age), but the name Evan came from a character in Miami Vice. *hides face*
I also toyed with naming him Vaughn Vladimir. Vaughn just because I liked the name and Vladimir of course after Dracula, but that was vetoed. I think if I ever had another son (which is doubtful at this stage of my life) I would name him Gabriel-if I didn’t have a girl and name her Gabrielle–simply because I like that name a lot. I also think at that point people would just think I’m naming all my kids from the Bible so maybe not. I wrote a fourth Siren Song novel (which has never been released) and named June’s daughter Antigone–Tiggy for short–and I think that would be a cool name too.
So yes, I would totally name babies after characters…and have!
I love Gabrielle, it’s a lovely name. Antigone is a great name too – I’d never thought of shortening it to Tiggy!
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I don’t know why I came up with that for a nickname, but I thought I was very clever! 😀
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I suggested Vladimir when I was pregnant with my son, but my husband thought that was just too much. lol Gabrielle is a pretty name! And I really like Gabriel. That’s a name I picked for the hero in one of my WIPs.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one that likes Vladimir! It might be a bit much, but hey, so what! 😀
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Some interesting names but probably good you got voted down on a few. lol
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LOL yes I definitely agree!
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Probably a good thing you were vetoed on that.
Never had kids but I’m sure we would’ve gone to the Bible for a name like Matthew, David, or Michael.
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I really like those too!
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Good list. I rather like the name Vaughn. It’s unique. 🙂
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Me too, but it wasn’t to be!
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Great stories! My post is here: https://jhthomas.blogspot.com/2019/01/wednesday-weekly-blogging-characters-id.html
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Thanks!
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You have great taste in baby names. I loved hearing your stories about how you chose them.
My Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge post.
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Thank you!
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Neat stories! And I think Greek (and Roman) mythology are loaded with great ideas for names. “Tiggy” … I never would have thought of that. Cute!
I’m here: http://www.mariannearkins.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-characters-id-name-a-baby-after/
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I agree! I always like names that are a bit outside the modern norms.
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There was a character named Cain in FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Everybody felt sorry for him. His mother, “not being a Bible-read woman,” got the wrong name. Everybody called him Cainey, to not embarrass him. I doubt many people today are “Bible-read” enough to give anybody grief over a great name like that.
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His father’s aunt definitely did! She was very religious and she was deeply offended we named him that. I was not thinking of it in the Biblical sense, though.
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Tell her Cain asked the right question: Am I my brother’s keeper?
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