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The author discusses how naming characters in fiction takes on added significance, as the writer is essentially creating a fictional universe and characters. The writer feels a sense of responsibility to give characters meaningful or symbolic names. The author was inspired to start their own blog after coming across another blogger's blog about stargazing. Even small influences from strangers can impact and inspire others in positive ways.
The author discusses how naming characters in fiction takes on added significance, as the writer is essentially creating a fictional universe and characters. The writer feels a sense of responsibility to give characters meaningful or symbolic names. The author was inspired to start their own blog after coming across another blogger's blog about stargazing. Even small influences from strangers can impact and inspire others in positive ways.
The author discusses how naming characters in fiction takes on added significance, as the writer is essentially creating a fictional universe and characters. The writer feels a sense of responsibility to give characters meaningful or symbolic names. The author was inspired to start their own blog after coming across another blogger's blog about stargazing. Even small influences from strangers can impact and inspire others in positive ways.
MAKE A HUMAN DIVINE Posted on December 24, 2013 by oneoverepsilon under Innite AS JUST SEARCHING THE MEANINGS BEHIND NAMES, FOR characters in my novelette. Its important (integral really) that what I write is careful, and the names are important symbolically. (I certainly do not feel the same about real life Home About Unseen Beauty and Visible Innite Wonders of Life by Bijou ONE OVER EPSILON The little things that make a human divine | One ... http://oneoverepsilon.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/... 1 of 9 30/01/14 16:54 names in reality are unimportant for me, they are attachments to the past, and serve a ne purpose, but are not exceptionally relevant.) However, when you start writing ction you (might? well it happened for me) get a sudden change in perspective on names. Its unlike the real social sphere. In a sense, a writer of a novel is creating an imaginary universe. They are its deity. So quite amazingly (to me at rst) it becomes a sensitive matter, a matter of deep ontology, to create characters with meaningful names, or cryptic names, or just names that have a special emotional resonancefor you, the writer. They are your creatures, and you owe them some sort of benevolence and respect. Yeah, yeah. This is all a bit dopey and indulgent. A writer is no deity, even in their own mind, in fact sometimes you feel the antithesis of a benevolent demigod for the universe you create. So what? Its how I genuinely, and unselfconsciously connected to the story Ive been aching to forge. Theres a good website here www.behindthename.com/ and I came across Janani Dhinakarans blog, The Outsiders Journey, and bang! It just gave me the inspirational kick to start a blog so that I could ditch my overly introverted journal, and basically unseen F/B pages (which are not great reads anyway) to start a proper journal for my kids to (maybe someday) read. Oh boy! I tell myself. This could be hard to write, and harder to read. But thanks Janani, whoever you are. May we happily meet by random The little things that make a human divine | One ... http://oneoverepsilon.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/... 2 of 9 30/01/14 16:54 chance one day and not even know it, but feel the surge in lifes connected continuous elds (giving us a little buzz somehow) and re-radiate the mysterious happiness of the moment to all around us. It did not take much eort on my part to have Janani make this divine little inuence in my life. Guess thats what makes people all the more wonderful. They can touch anothers soul without ever realizing it. Now all I need to do to thank her is get my novelette going faster and be true to the imagined humanity of the characters I have and will create. Thats all, p! s not too much pressure being a ctional deity. It was the tiniest impulse. Maybe the tipping point was just her blog entry janinthesky.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/starry-night/ which did it? Gazing at the stars was so important for me as a kid growing up in Aotearoa, I had my parents get extra windows installed in my bedroom, so I could watch the stars as I feel asleep. Pretty obvious resonance then huh? But Ive had loads of tremendously insightful and achingly gorgeous moments browsing the web, so why now? Ahhhh, thats a little secret I will not yet divulge. Who really knows what ones motives are though? Ive read research suggesting most people tell ctions to themselves, stories they believe, to explain their actions, which are (the psychologists tell us) very, very tenuously related to The little things that make a human divine | One ... http://oneoverepsilon.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/... 3 of 9 30/01/14 16:54 really what drives them. Professor Sean Lane at LSU says that even being forced to repeatedly deny something has a weired psychological backre eectamazingly some people (which includes the mythical yet undeniably impactful average person) can be self-deceived into believing the lie in the denial. Heres a brief except from ScienceDaily.com: To explain, Lane cited the illusory truth eect, the idea that hearing false information repeatedly will make it seem truthful, simply because its familiar. His study takes this idea in a new direction. Theyre telling the truth, theyre denying, but later this thing seems familiar, said Lane. Theyre confusing the familiarity of the repetition [with the truth], not realizing that those repeated denials are what makes it seem familiar 48 hours later. This means that telling the truth can actually lead to a false memory. A man who repeatedly denies being present at the scene of the crime, for example, might actually begin to imagine that scene where it was, what it looked like, who was present even if he was never there. It feels strangely The little things that make a human divine | One ... http://oneoverepsilon.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/... 4 of 9 30/01/14 16:54 familiar to him, and because the repeated denials have slipped from his memory, he cant explain why. False memory is a well-documented phenomenon, and Lane has researched it extensively throughout his career. In a courtroom, it can be disastrous. Through studies like this one, Lane oers forensic investigators a deeper insight into this bizarre behavior. An accessible read on similar psychology is Daniel Golemans Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception. Try the NYTimes review of the book if you are in a hurry. * * * My mind has its own theory, about why Jananis blog inspired me, and I believe it to be sincere, since I havent thought much about it. I havent had time to repeat it to myself to believe it for banal psychological self-delusion reasons. Its just this rst theme for this blog which popped into my head (or should I write out of my head?). Ha! Maybe this is all ction. Thing is, if it is, I dont know it! This entry was tagged characters, divine, humanity, inspiration, names, writing. Bookmark the permalink. Edit The little things that make a human divine | One ... http://oneoverepsilon.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/... 5 of 9 30/01/14 16:54 Of All the Pop Songs 3 thoughts on The little things that make a human divine Jaydei December 25, 2013 at 12:36 pm (Edit) Dear Oneoverepsilon, I wish you the best in your novel. Keep me posted -Janani Reply oneoverepsilon December 26, 2013 at 3:30 am (Edit) Yes, of course I will. Hehe would you oer to be a friendly critic a well? (Im not my own best critic.) Reply The little things that make a human divine | One ... http://oneoverepsilon.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/... 6 of 9 30/01/14 16:54 Search RECENT POSTS Probability of Hope Myth of the Ultimate Anti Page Search RECENT POSTS Probability of Hope Myth of the Ultimate Anti Page Jaydei December 26, 2013 at 9:58 pm (Edit) Why not! 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