I’m reworking one of my middle-grade manuscripts and decided to change a character’s name. The girl is named after her grandmother so I wanted to use Little + Name, but when I did an online search to make sure it wasn’t already a common name in children’s literature I discovered it was, indeed, common. In the porn world. (Fortunately, the girl’s name is Spanish so I can use the -ita diminutive and drop the Little.)
Then I went to make my morning smoothie and the vibrating Ninja blender caused a wine glass to tip in the dish rack and smash against the counter top.
Wonder if Judy Blume faces these types of challenges?
I routinely Google my characters’ names and have changed a few that were (previously unbeknownst to me) adult film stars or murderers.
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HA! I guess I should be glad my character’s name wasn’t also connected to a murderer. It was enough of a jolt to realize there were online videos. 🙂
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