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You must have a lot of fun just thinking up all these things. 
posted by
TAPS.
on October 9, 2012 at 8:32 AM
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Pat
The best 'revenge' would be to give the most unsympathetic female character in your novel that woman's name...
posted by
Nautikos
on October 9, 2012 at 7:59 AM
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Well I suppose she had to say something Clara, Martha, Ada, No I can't see these ladies taking flight. I cannot see anything wrong with your choice.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 9, 2012 at 1:05 AM
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PatB
What a pain she was, just go with your own names they always seem to fit when you've written them yourself.
posted by
WileyJohn
on October 8, 2012 at 6:35 PM
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i like Evie if Evelyn is regarded as old fashioned . Named evelyn but known
as Evie but i find if my chatacter has named themselves then that is who they are and i can't change them.
posted by
Kabu
on October 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM
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I like Evelyn - especially the Evie. Looks like that your 'Ethel' and my 'Ethel' from a couple of days ago are similar - can you imagine their chit chat over coffee??
posted by
adnohr
on October 8, 2012 at 3:11 PM
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My daughter used to work with a woman... an older woman, at that,
named Evan. As a woman's name, it conveys just the opposite of old-fashioned, and could be feminized a touch, without losing that. If you use it, it gives you more playground, so to speak, in defining-by-suggestion her personal balance of male/female energies.
I rarely read much into character names, though I appreciate ones that have an 'appropriate' sound to them, in the context of the story. Dickens, of course, was a master of naming with pertinance and sometimes, very little subtlety: Mr Macawber... Uriah Heep....
posted by
Ciel
on October 8, 2012 at 9:10 AM
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mmmmmm....evelyn is kind of old fashioned and contra to her personality....but im sure you can find one
posted by
Annicita
on October 8, 2012 at 7:44 AM
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posted by
dsm_tchr
on October 8, 2012 at 6:59 AM
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