What I'm Listening To: When I Grow Up-Pussycat Dolls
I'm doing a little bit of research on names, but besides that, I think that the book is coming along nicely. I have this really weird habit when I'm naming one of my characters--I go and look at a baby names generator online and come up with one I think will fit. One generator that I particularly like is really well designed and has baby names by country, origin, language, alphabetically, etc. It's the most effective and easiest for me to use. For my new book, I wanted to create really exotic names because the characters are anything but ordinary. I picked from the Akkadian language, Persian, Aztec, Gaelic, Asian, and even Arabic names to find names for my characters.
Still a lot to do for the Vagina Monologues, and I have a ton of homework to do for each of my classes. My friends were over last night and we were watching Meet the Browns, but what we really wanted to see again was Why Did I Get Married? because it has the 80/20 rule in it. Apparently that's when a person in a relationship has 80% of what they need. Many times, it feels like 100% until something goes wrong and then the person focuses on what they don't have. Suddenly, a person comes along who has what your partner is lacking in. It could be beauty, listening skills, money, etc. So you leave the 80% and go to the 20% only to realize that the 20% can't satisfy you and then the regret period follows. It was a pretty interesting concept.
Now I just really need to focus on doing the rest of the research for these names and then I should be all set to go to write!
