The sort of chap who has brown-nosed his way up to a moderate ranking level and would like to go higher. Looks good in a uniform, but gets too caught up in his own importance. Indeterminate imaginary nationality vaguely caught between old French and Romanian.
Huh. I tend to favour hard consonants for the names of heavies -- Brad, Doug, Traynor, Grant, things like that. My preferred technique with any name that isn't generic American is to Google "France boys names" or "Latvian girls names" and read down the resulting lists till I spot one with the right feel to it.
That's for first names, of course. For surnames, I'll often go to Wikipedia and look down the names of Famous Romanians (or whatever) for an apt-sounding name. Then I Google it to get a feeling for how common it is.
I've done that before as well, though for non-Earth I'll throw in something to make it 'familiar and not familar' by doing a mix-and-match with the first and second halves of common names, or have something almost but not quite like someone from history that brings up the right connotations. I'm off to Google, thanks for the reminder of that resource. Love your icon!
Argh? Hopefully it won't stay that way. *hands over virtual chocolate*
My WIP is staring back at me like a fish, so I've gone off on a plot bunny that isn't even properly attached to a story - and it's growing rather rapidly into a complete long scene that's going to be begging for a beginning and an end.
*smacks forehead* Great. I've started another story.
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Date: 2010-06-05 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 05:22 am (UTC)Hopefully you're having better luck?
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 05:47 am (UTC)"Bob" doesn't cut it here.
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:51 am (UTC)That's for first names, of course. For surnames, I'll often go to Wikipedia and look down the names of Famous Romanians (or whatever) for an apt-sounding name. Then I Google it to get a feeling for how common it is.
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 06:04 am (UTC)The full-sized LOL is here:
http://lolmac.livejournal.com/109989.html
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Date: 2010-06-05 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 05:23 am (UTC)Your icon needs to be made aware of The Shakespeare Code.
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 10:28 am (UTC)*happy but not coherent* *is morning* *early* ...zzzzzzz...
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:00 am (UTC)My WIP is staring back at me like a fish, so I've gone off on a plot bunny that isn't even properly attached to a story - and it's growing rather rapidly into a complete long scene that's going to be begging for a beginning and an end.
*smacks forehead* Great. I've started another story.
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:25 am (UTC)I have never had a fish do that to me. Another story sounds distracting, but also fun.
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 05:24 am (UTC)You could always do it 20in20-style, and make up whatever fic you want to write and then shoehorn it into a prompt.
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:42 am (UTC)Well, I guess I'm pretty much done for the night - just hanging around and picking away at things from time to time. Will be back tomorrow!
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 05:44 am (UTC)G'night!
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 05:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-05 05:56 am (UTC)...Goodnight, then.
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Date: 2010-06-05 06:12 am (UTC)