{"id":106200,"date":"2016-12-26T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106200"},"modified":"2016-12-27T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:03:50","slug":"what-kind-of-name-is-that-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/26\/what-kind-of-name-is-that-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kind of Name Is That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re away until January 3, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94224\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sketches.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94224\" class=\"wp-image-94224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sketches.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sketches.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sketches-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Characters in need of names.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>How to name\u00a0your fictional characters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To me the most embarrassing part of writing fiction, aside from telling people about it, is naming your characters. Of course, even \u201creal\u201d names are made up, but in life our names are things we can alter only with a great deal of paperwork; in fiction, writers can line up names and identities as they please, dropping or trading them on a whim. Contriving a name for a contrived person seems terribly precious to me, akin to naming a doll. You want your characters to have names that aren\u2019t too convenient but still memorable and meaningful, which isn\u2019t easy. I spent about a year with a manuscript populated by memorable characters like <em>[[ROOMMATE]]<\/em> and <em>???????\u2019s dad<\/em>, swapping dozens of potential monikers in pursuit of the perfectly natural, unforced, graceful name. After rupturing a few blood vessels that way, I tried to figure out what other writers were doing.<\/p>\n<p>The question of what names mean, what they\u2019re for, has been around in the West since at least 500 <small>B.C.<\/small>, when the Pythagoreans developed a few rules of onomancy to divine human traits from things like the number of vowels in one\u2019s name. (Even numbers signaled an imperfection in the left side of the body.) One of the earliest discussions about naming comes from Plato\u2019s dialogue \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/plato-cratylus\/\">Cratylus<\/a>,\u201d in which Socrates oversees a debate about whether a name is \u201can instrument of teaching and distinguishing natures\u201d or whether it\u2019s just a matter of \u201cconvention and agreement.\u201d More recently, psychoanalysts like Wilhelm Stekel and Carl Jung posited that the \u201ccompulsion of the name\u201d not only reflects but determines one\u2019s future: that we\u2019re all engaged, from birth, in a nominative determinism. (Anyone quick to dismiss this as Freudian bunk should look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/shaq-hits-sportsagain-and-again-and-again?utm_source=vicetwitterus\">abundance of Shaquilles<\/a> now entering professional sports.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/what-kind-of-name-is-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to name your fictional characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":931,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26379],"tags":[1513,21079,14753,11479,1203,21078,689,21076,21077,71,21080,615,110,1268,9295,16046,5862,2125,1194,11693,8757,1754,4386,21081,75],"class_list":["post-106200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-2016","tag-alexandra-kleeman","tag-artifice","tag-characterization","tag-characters","tag-charles-dickens","tag-conventions","tag-craft","tag-cratylic-names","tag-cratylus","tag-fiction","tag-invention","tag-john-updike","tag-jonathan-franzen","tag-martin-amis","tag-names","tag-naming","tag-plato","tag-process","tag-saul-bellow","tag-socrates","tag-tao-lin","tag-tennessee-williams","tag-thomas-pynchon","tag-verisimilitude","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Kind of Name Is That? 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