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How do you select the names of your characters? For you, is there a method?
Usually there's no method, *but* my most recent MS is set in a crapsack space empire where the noble families all have latin names … which are borrowed from various species of deeply unpleasant parasite or parasitoid. ("Duke Tapeworm" or "Count Leech" are a bit too obvious, but taxonomic cognates work beautifully!)
How do you select the names of your characters? For you, is there a method?
Usually there's no method, *but* my most recent MS is set in a crapsack space empire where the noble families all have latin names … which are borrowed from various species of deeply unpleasant parasite or parasitoid. ("Duke Tapeworm" or "Count Leech" are a bit too obvious, but taxonomic cognates work beautifully!)
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