Tuesday, November 9, 2010

What's In A Name, Rama Muhammad?

Fantasy Author, N.R. Williams, just concluded a character-naming contest on her blog. She copied each of the twenty-four entries onto small, folded slips of paper, put them into a bowl, tossed them around and then had her three and a half year old granddaughter pull a name.

Guess what?

She pulled my entry.

Now Ms. Williams' upcoming Amazon Kindle book, The Treasures of Carmelidrium, has a pianist extraordinaire named Rama Muhammad. I can't wait to read all about her!

20 comments:

  1. Thanks, Colene; hey, your recent "ghost" experience was something else!

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  2. That's awesome! Congratulations!

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  3. That's really cool, congratulations! When I'm naming my main characters, I will spend a while finding a name whose meaning fits them. The secondary characters I just randomly pick.

    A great idea for naming my next cast!

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  4. Lynda - good to see you here again! Thanks; I liked your recent post on distractions to writing. They're everywhere!

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  5. Congrats! You're lucky you can come up with such good names-I'm terrible at them, haha.

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  6. Hi Mohamed, congrats... thats really cool. :)

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  7. Words Crafter,
    I agree; a name can mean a lot towards defining the character and/or her/his circumstances in the story.

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  8. Oddyoddyo13,
    Thanks. And...with a name like "Oddyoddyo13," do you really want me to believe that you're terrible at coming up with good names? :)

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  9. Thank you, Rama....and now there'll be yet another "Rama" in literature :)

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  10. Thanks for blogging about this Mohamed. Do remember she is only in chapter one. But her job is so very important. To give readers an insight into my heroines personality and show what a great person she is. That's the goal anyway. We will see how talented a writer I really am. LOL. Now I know Rama is a she.
    Love your blog.
    Nancy
    N. R. Williams, fantasy author

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  11. Thank you, Nancy! I know you'll weave your imaginative and literary magic around the name and I feel privileged to be a small, small part of your upcoming work. I'll keep in touch with you on your blog :)

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  12. Thanks, PK! Hey, glad to see that you can enjoy the sofa and remote just as much as any guy :)

    Me too!

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