: Re: Choosing character names is a constant difficulty I find it hard to name my characters. Every normal name sounds funny if applied to a product of my fantasy. If I take a common name, I may

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I don't know why, but I like naming conventions of Post-Modern writers like Pynchon's Oedipa Maas and Dr. Hilarius or DFW's Hal Incandenza.

They're absurdist, but suggest additional meaning which makes them intriguing.

I suppose, though, that naming conventions are tied to genre. An example that comes to mind is that I've seen characters referred to as only a letter in shorter fiction, but that may become tedious to the reader in a full length novel.

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