Alia

@seekjustice They do sound really cool.  And pretty crazy.  Any little boy saddled with a name like that these days would be hopelessly bullied. 😮

I will now be departing for the night.  Talk to you later!

@rochellaine

Well, I’ve just been reading several histories of British kings and some of my favourite names are the Anglo-Saxon kings…Aethulbert, Aethulwulf, Aethalstan, Aelfred. Great names 😛

Yeah, it has a really nice meaning!

Yes, that’s the one I meant. So far, I’m sure it makes zero sense, but at least I’ve started (though I am working…[Read more]

@seekjustice I’m seriously considering using Jaron.  However, choosing a name for a character is such an important task I believe I’ll think on it for a bit just to make sure. 😉  Thank you so much!

Yeah, I think both Dalbert and Elbert made me think of Anglo-Saxon names from my old his-fic and history books, so that’s probably why they didn’t s…[Read more]

@rochellaine

They’re both pretty cool names!

I thought Dalbert was really odd. It’s like Albert, but with a D and that just seems crazy. Elbert is also quite strange and brings to mind an Anglo-Saxon prince or something. Amadeus is strange, but we’re more used to it, probably thanks to Mozart.

@seekjustice Jaron and Keir are great!  I like those a lot.  Especially Jaron.  I think I might end up using that!

I’ve actually heard of all those except Casimir, Jaron, Kier, Kele, and Kiel, so I’m interested to hear which ones you thought were weird? 🙂  Casimir is the weirdest in my opinion. 😛 (No offense to any Casimirs who may happen to…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Alaric

Amadeus

Aquila

Armand

Brigham

Caldwell

Casimir

Colter

Dalbert

Elbert

Everest

Garek

Jaron

Kade

Keir

Kele

Kiel

Some of these are very strange. If you don’t like any of them, let me know. I have half a book to go through yet.

@seekjustice Well, actually neither. 😛 Addison is still too normal.  It sounds a bit strange, but everyone’s heard of it.  I don’t want an ancient name either, like Adeodatus.  I want a name that sounds normal, but no one has ever heard of it before, like

…okay, I have spent the last fifteen minutes searching for at least one example and I ca…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira

I remember seeing her around 😀 She does seem pretty cool. I’ve often wished that I had a big sister.

@rochellaine

Exactly how unusual are you thinking? More along the lines of Addison or, say, Adeodatus?

@seekjustice My sister is Selah Chelyah, and she writes primary historical fiction like I do.  She’s two years older than me, and she’s awesome ( except for 2% of the time when I’m sure I could strangle her). 😉

@rochellaine

Let me get the baby names book.

@rochellaine

I wouldn’t either, but I’m not adverse to the idea of praying for a husband (as in, praying for the guy, not praying that I would get one)

We do change a lot, don’t we? I don’t remember ever having a specific list though. I still don’t have one now, to be honest.

@seekjustice @ariel-ashira I need a name for a character.  He’s the protagonist of one of my writing projects, and it’s set in a contemporary period.  Since he’s the protagonist he needs to have a nice enough sounding name that people won’t be put off by it.  However, it needs to be a very unusual name in order for the plot to work.  The kic…[Read more]

@seekjustice Haha.  Well, I’ve heard of people doing that, so I don’t think it’s a completely strange or new idea.  It’s not something I’d do, though. 😉

However, I did once (several years ago) write a list of questions I’d ask a guy who wanted to court me and their required answers.  I went over it again recently and realized how silly it wa…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Wondering if writing letters to your future husband qualifies as obsessed.

Also working on my novel 😀

@ariel-ashira Ah, thanks. 🙂

@seekjustice 😛

What are you doing now?

@rochellaine

Yeah, and I feel they might be walking that line 🙂

@ariel-ashira

Oh, who’s your sister?

@rochellaine Yeah, that makes sense.  My sister is on SE, which is the main reason I go there.

But it seriously is nicer with you around.

@seekjustice I’m back!

The line between helpfulness and obsession…hm. 😛

@ariel-ashira Hello, I’m here now.  One thing I noticed about SE was that it’s a lot like KP used to be. (obviously, because it’s run by the same people…) Basically what I mean is, while like you say, 90% of the people write fantasy and magic, a lot of the discussions…[Read more]

@seekjustice Are you on right now?