Naming (Day?)

On names, changing them, and JD leaving

Points to consider:

• Initials
• The meaning of ‘Madison’
• Jesse as first dog
• Keeping Scott - why, why not
• Clary and that baggage
• Author names (keeping MJSC as a pseudonym)
• Plurality
• Being weird
• Meaning of the name as a whole
• Coming up with names as a writer, all that time on behindthename
• JD story:
  • Do I start from marriage? From dating? From his mother’s death?
  • I should try to keep it from just being a bitch session.
  • But also bring up Jujube losing Zephyr and him.
  • Discussions in the past about him leaving

What text?

• Could do some Jeff VanderMeer texts? Like, there’s Ghost Bird in Southern Reach, and there’s the strange bird, and there’s Borne who was named almost deliberately…
• Texts with weird names (esp in ‘normal’ contexts) that just treat them as normal.