Jack, Jackity, Jack, Jack, Jack

Dear Richard,

Thanks for the warning.



Sincerely,

John Archer

I concur.

Best,
John Jackson Savage

What if it's a female author and her name is Jackie Butcherknife?

I'm currently working on "The Adventures of Johnny Jackson and his sidekick, Mason Carver."

Please address all correspondence to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue....

Aries and Saggitarius

rhymegirl said:

What if it's a female author and her name is Jackie Butcherknife?

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Oh my no! Too sharp!

aspier
Saggitarius

I like the name Jack.

I'm just sick of all the redheads. In real life, it seems one out of twenty women have red hair. In fantasy worlds, it's more like 60-70%.

Yet they never get skin cancer. Or sunburns, for that matter.

Navigator, I've learned from hanging out here that 60-70% of writers are redheads.

Yes, Jack is being so overdone, which is a shame as when used to name the thing you raise your car up with or when describing and action, 'jack' is a great work.

In my daughter's class at school there are four Jack's, three Chloes, three Bethanys and two Demis.
It's enough to make you want to call your kid Archibald Winterbottom.

Richard said:

Just as a general warning, the author of the next book I read whose main character is called 'Jack' or 'John' will receive a live skunk through the post. If the surname is a tough sounding word like 'Mason' or 'Carver' or 'Blunderbuss', the skunk will be dosed up on laxatives before the trip.

Grr....

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Hang on, you're in England, where are you going to get a skunk from?
If you need to pop something in the post that's capable of stinking up the place, I suggest you raid the House of Lords and bag one.

Jesus, I was gonna say, if a prime minister makes us grateful for the Lords then we might as well be living in some crazy opposite parallel sci-fi nightmare world.

We should all refuse to pay tax. That would be a larf.

Wakco

mm a Jack Wacko idea!

Ohh the Boston Irish Mob.

Let me call Jack Marshall-Cleaver, criminal lawyer.

XThe NavigatorX said:

Yet they never get skin cancer. Or sunburns, for that matter.

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I just wrote in a sunburn yesterday. But my character is not a redhead. I figured a fairskinned person in a desert setting is gonna get burned. Heck, I live in Pennsylvania and still get burned even while wearing SPF 30.

Melina said:

Navigator, I've learned from hanging out here that 60-70% of writers are redheads.

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This might be good news if it's ok to be a redhead from a bottle.

My personal naming pet peeve:

Alex, as a woman's name, for the "sexy tomboy."

Ugh.

As long as your last name isn't O'lantern I have no problem with it.

Jack

Jack O'lantern? Don't know him? Related to Alex?

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Also another common name in detective stories is Dick and i hate that honestly people in school call me that to wind me up (My name is Richard). I can't see why all of these detectives are called Dick, instead of Richard, you know it kind of insults me that they neve use Richard as a character name they have to shorten it. It is honestly stupid to call them that

no one is ever nemed Jeffrey nothing as as the hero

Nivvie said:

It's enough to make you want to call your kid Archibald Winterbottom.

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When I had my younger son, one of the nurses in the hospital loved his name SOOO much, she named HER SON the same thing when he was born a few weeks later. That irritated the life out of me. My son's name, Seth Joel, was chosen because they are both family names. She used my son's name to ease the burden of thinking of an origial one, I guess.

The only names that bug me in novels are the ridiculous sounding soap opera type names that sound like a breeze should be follwoing them everywhere they go so that their hair is always perfectly tousled.

I just changed my MC's name to Jonathon Winter, I was inspired by this thread. My female name is Alexis, she rich and sexy...hahaha