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Do you guys name your characters common believable names or do
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Do you guys name your characters common believable names or do you give them made up post-modern names to make your story seem smarter than it is?
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Turns out, Gogol is po-mo! /lit/ is full of discoveries
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Holy damn, your handwriting is atrocious. Are those supposed to be A's or triangles
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>>8167706
Triangles, these are post modern names.
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>>8167755
Witch house isn't post modern
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Jeremiah Xbox-Lewinsky
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>naming characters
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>>8167694
You know who's even more pomo? Dickens
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Peter Portmanteau
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>>8167681
>to make your story seem smarter than it is.

Jumping to conclusions aren't we?
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naming characters in itself seems too pleb for me.
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>>8167681
it's always super annoying when the names are actually given in a thoughtful way and are an organic part of the story

it's also super annoying when super plens like you won't recognize that it can be done without being distractingly and distastefully obvious
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>>8167681
It's more pomo to not name them at all. Which you'd know if you weren't a retarded corncobber.
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>>8167852

Marcel Mondegreen
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