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valis2When I was eleven I started thinking up this superspy story. I came up with all of these characters, gave them all code names, wrote them down.
When I was thirteen I wrote a bit of it (the first bit is here, if you want your brain to fall out), and it was fun.
The thing is, I've been consumed with this set of characters for years. And because these characters are, at this point, inexorably bound to their names, I had no idea that they were stupid. Honest.
I was telling the superspy plot to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookwench2096 and she started guffawing over the names. I ended up having to read the entire list of names aloud to her so she could say "yes" or "no" to them. I had almost no idea that they were awful. Honest. You just get used to them and you don't realize how silly they are.
That's why George Lucas had no idea that people would burst into giggles upon hearing the name Count Dooku.
And just so you have an idea of how bad my names were...
Pirate, Ponytail, Valleygirl, Nailpolish, Pencilthin, Criss-cross, Pepsi and Coke (twins), Jetblack, Makeup, Trestle Table, Stampede.
Bookwench was wise to naysay them.
When I was thirteen I wrote a bit of it (the first bit is here, if you want your brain to fall out), and it was fun.
The thing is, I've been consumed with this set of characters for years. And because these characters are, at this point, inexorably bound to their names, I had no idea that they were stupid. Honest.
I was telling the superspy plot to
bookwench2096 and she started guffawing over the names. I ended up having to read the entire list of names aloud to her so she could say "yes" or "no" to them. I had almost no idea that they were awful. Honest. You just get used to them and you don't realize how silly they are.That's why George Lucas had no idea that people would burst into giggles upon hearing the name Count Dooku.
And just so you have an idea of how bad my names were...
Pirate, Ponytail, Valleygirl, Nailpolish, Pencilthin, Criss-cross, Pepsi and Coke (twins), Jetblack, Makeup, Trestle Table, Stampede.
Bookwench was wise to naysay them.
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Date: 2005-05-27 04:21 pm (UTC)I always imagine him coming up with the name Darth Maul at age eleven, after looking up the word Maul for the first time. "Hey, that's cool!"