As I’ve been writing this book, names for characters have mostly popped into my head – I only named the main characters before I started in on things.
I am now 28,022 words into the book, so the characters have some details around them, and in my head their names are their names.
But I just wrote a few pages of dialog between two male characters whose first names both start with the letter “J” and it has occurred to me that I may have to change one. Obviously I know that people share first initials in real life all the time, but it’s giving me a weird boy band vibe now for some reason.
Don’t know. I definitely will not make changes while I’m writing, as I’m sure it would just cause me to stumble (and as previously noted in this blog, I have word count goals and a full-time job. I need to stay on track.) But maybe in editing. If I actually had readers, I could ask them for name suggestions.
For now, I’ve decided to worry about it in the final edits.