I need some help.
And you (yes, YOU, the one reading this right now) might be able to help.
The lead character in my horror novel, Simon Meeks, needs a name change. I won’t go into the whole story…but his last name makes an unintentional allusion to some of his personality traits.
So…what name would you give to a misfit forensic pathologist, with an addiction to absinthe, love of silent films, and an overly personal relationship with the dead?
I’ll likely keep Simon’s first name…but I’m open to suggestions if you have a full name you want to lay on me. And so…shoot…I’m all ears. I can’t promise I’ll use a name suggested here, but you never know—when the book is on the shelves in the not too distant future, you might be able to say, “I got to name a character in a novel.”
Joshua Alan Doetsch 
Simon Crane.
Allusions to Ichabod for those with a literary background, but also ironically indicative of purity, stature (as in height) and ungainly awkwardness.
🙂
I sometimes overthink things….
I like the Sleepy Hollow allusion 🙂 It conjures up the image of the old story…and the weird 18th century forensic science of the character from the Tim Burton film.
sheriffjoe said:
Simon Crane.
Allusions to Ichabod for those with a literary background, but also ironically indicative of purity, stature (as in height) and ungainly awkwardness.
🙂
I sometimes overthink things….
Simon Carver
Simon Wickford
Homphonic joke entry:
Simon Ayes
That’s homophonic.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Lol…no…nothing wrong with that. My father was homophonic.
desert_fox said:
Simon Carver
Simon Wickford
Homphonic joke entry:
Simon Ayes
desert_fox said:
That’s homophonic.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Simon Cowell. I promise I made that up.
Noted 🙂
magicianactor said:
Simon Cowell. I promise I made that up.
Simon Saes. How about Simon Belmont?
Seriously, though, Simon LaRue.
Simon?
Beware the Uncle Tom’s Cabin overtones (above)!
So you just want some deadbeat dad to give their name to your bastard conception and then skip town, is that it?
Re: Simon?
All my little children are precious to me…even the ones I have to dismember and use their parts for other creations…
Simon Belmont came to mind during this whole novel process 🙂
In fact, as a private joke for myself, the outline and notes I’ve been turning into the editor refers to Simon’s chase for the body parts of the Jane Doe cadaver he fell in love with as “Simon’s Quest”–the subtile of Castivlania II (the quest in that game being, if you remember, Belmont trying to get Dracula’s body parts back).
grabstein_69 said:
Simon Saes. How about Simon Belmont?
Seriously, though, Simon LaRue.
mrs_borglum said:
Simon?
Beware the Uncle Tom’s Cabin overtones (above)!
So you just want some deadbeat dad to give their name to your bastard conception and then skip town, is that it?
Simon Lues, I believe Lues has something to do with syphilis
I don’t want to know why you know that…
hehe…maybe he should have syphilis…though I’ve already fucked with this characters mind quite a bit.
bassman_spiff said:
Simon Lues, I believe Lues has something to do with syphilis
lacubsfan said:
I don’t want to know why you know that…
nevermore_66 said:
I like the Sleepy Hollow allusion 🙂 It conjures up the image of the old story…and the weird 18th century forensic science of the character from the Tim Burton film.
nevermore_66 said:
Lol…no…nothing wrong with that. My father was homophonic.
nevermore_66 said:
Noted 🙂
nevermore_66 said:
Simon Belmont came to mind during this whole novel process 🙂
In fact, as a private joke for myself, the outline and notes I’ve been turning into the editor refers to Simon’s chase for the body parts of the Jane Doe cadaver he fell in love with as “Simon’s Quest”–the subtile of Castivlania II (the quest in that game being, if you remember, Belmont trying to get Dracula’s body parts back).
nevermore_66 said:
Re: Simon?
All my little children are precious to me…even the ones I have to dismember and use their parts for other creations…
nevermore_66 said:
hehe…maybe he should have syphilis…though I’ve already fucked with this characters mind quite a bit.