The Naming of Things

[firstlight]

Still intending to set up a website archive for fic (as well as, not instead of, archiving on livejournal). There is, of course, that inherent problem. You know the one. The one that always plagues me with everything I do.

Yeah. That one.

Naming the damn thing.

*g*

(Nori is setting me up on rikkaidai.org - I just need a subdomain name. I have been in need of a subdomain name for, oh, a week now?)


This really is a perpetual problem of mine. Roleplaying - so you've thought about who your character is, created a story for them, even rolled up their stats. You're ready to play except for, oh, that pesky little detail... Or stories. How damn long did it take me to name each story I've written? I knew what 'the moon and our scars' was called by the time I'd written a paragraph and a half of it, I think, or at least that it would be some variation on that - but that was the fault of the illustration and words at the beginning of the chapter I was basing the story on. Nothing else has ever presented itself so easily, and there have honestly been days when I've spent twice as long trying to title something as I did writing it in the first place. Journals? Ok, how many of my journals have only been named after begging Syl for help? I don't think I want to admit that one. *g* When I was a small child it's true that I named every spider I found in my bedroom, but I named them all Victoria. Yes, all of them. (I also named every stray cat I came into contact with - which was, for various reasons, quite a few - some variation on Thomas, unless forcibly stopped or informed that it was female. And even then, I thought of it as Thomas. Or Tommy. Or Tom. The first cat I was allowed to keep was called Tommy.)

Evidently there is a part of the brain which comes up with names, and mine has been misfiring for a very long time now.

It's probably just as well I have no particular intention of reproducing. Can you imagine the state I'd end up in if I had to provide a small human being with a name it could well be stuck with for the better part of a century?

Doesn't bear thinking about.

Comments

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

BUT THOMAS IS A BEAUTIFUL NAME.

the naming of parts

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

i suck at titles, they never match the stories, I'm on a bit of a poetry kick at the moment, naming things after lines of poetry, I decided when i was nine that if i had a baby, boy or girl, i was going to call it jacob and so when i name characters i never call them jacob just in case
sometimes the names come to me, sometimes not, sometimes a story can have half a dozen titles or be labelled untitled, and sometimes, just sometimes, I flashes of inspiration and come up with the best titles.
so it's not just you.

[elenya54.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn there was a spider called Clementine, as well. :D

Hee, you only have to look at my website and journal names to know this naming thing could be a genetic trait.

[alle-goriest.livejournal.com]

XDDDD Naming all of the spiders and cats the same thing just sounds really cute and funny. ♥

But naming things is the worst. =_____=;;;;;; Good luck to you on that one.

[sagetan.livejournal.com]

Victoria. That's utterly awesome. Reminds me of Corpse Bride :) I always say that I want a pet just so I could name it, but... My rat ended up being named Cloud because that was the name they gave him at the pet store. I wanted to call him Saturday, but the general consensus of friends and family was '...no.' XP