:-) Back in college I was working on a story. When I finally got to the point where I needed to choose names for the characters, I named the main guy Perin. 2 weeks later I started reading the Wheel of Time series and discovered that one of the top guys in it was named Perrin. I loved the name of my main character so much that it took me forever to choose an alternate name for him. By the time that I did, he had ceased to be the main character (because how could I plan around someone with no name?).
I was telling someone else tonight that I had given some minor characters some arbitrary names that were in the top few hundred for their birth year (if I assume the book takes place in the year that I write it). Well, I was writing in 2008, and one of them happened to be named Sierra. Yeah, so after watching Dollhouse, had to change that one...
On the plus side, it was a character so minor, she had no character to speak of, so it wasn't a big deal.
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Back in college I was working on a story. When I finally got to the point where I needed to choose names for the characters, I named the main guy Perin. 2 weeks later I started reading the Wheel of Time series and discovered that one of the top guys in it was named Perrin. I loved the name of my main character so much that it took me forever to choose an alternate name for him. By the time that I did, he had ceased to be the main character (because how could I plan around someone with no name?).
Eventually I named him Pavin.
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On the plus side, it was a character so minor, she had no character to speak of, so it wasn't a big deal.
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