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>> Joshua: Can You Do It? Prove It! A Novel Series: The Main Character's Name-
The Common.
The Common is one of the several sub-topics of The Main Character's Name.
Have you ever realized that there are names so common that it gets annoying?
Hey, Josh! Josh! No, not you, the other Josh! Erm. Not that Josh, that Josh right there!
A name that is overly used in the your country and placed into a book that will be published
in your country could show nothing but laziness of the writer. A name in a novel series should
always be handled carefully.
In your mind, think of what you know from in your country of how many top common names
are out there. Do you really want to make your character's name of that? Or, do you
want to pull back from the it and try something different. Something that will not annoy or
distract the reader.
Think to yourself if the name is common in the real world. If it is, ask yourself why
do I want my main character to be called that common name. Upon competition of the topic,
The Main Character's Name, you will be able to figure and compare of why to use the common
name.
How boring is John?
How boring is Mary?
How interesting is James?
What about Linda?
You as the author created your main character. You gave the fictional character a breath
of life. Now, after all of that hard work, do you want to splat it a common name? Or
a name of craft? Maybe you need a name before you do give your fictional character a breath
of life, either way, it all applies.
You do want your main character to stand out. You do want your main character's name to
be remembered. You do want the character to to be unique. You do want it to be different
enough to last a generations to come to seem like it is a trademark preventing other writers
from using it. Why go with a name already too common?
A novel series is a craft, not a newspaper report. If one heard of the name before, and
again, and some more elsewhere, then how are they amused to read the name on paper? Wouldn't
one be amused by something different?
Go online and research the top common male and female names. Try to find out the top
names in the other countries you want your novel series to be popular in. Compare and
figure out what names are overly used.
This concludes the sub topic, The Common.
of the topic The Main Character's name.