{"id":40577,"date":"2022-10-06T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40577"},"modified":"2022-11-20T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T08:02:41","slug":"qa-thursdays-reprised-7-robins-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/qa-thursdays-reprised-7-robins-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A Thursdays Reprised #8: Robin’s Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, I’ve been reprising a Daughter of Blood<\/em> <\/a>\u00a0(and by extension The Wall Of Night<\/a> ) Q&A series that first featured in 2019. I think the questions merit another look so I hope you’re enjoying the refeature, too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Today’s question is from Robin, on the writing of Tuckerization characters.<\/p>\n

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Robin:<\/strong> You\u2019ve had readers give their names to a character in both Daughter of Blood<\/em> and The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>. (I think it\u2019s called Tuckerization?) Are those characters hard to write into the rest of the book? Or do you just change the names of characters you already planned to have in the story?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The process of real-world people giving their name to a character, or sometimes a place or object, in a book <\/em>is called Tuckerization. For example, I was Tuckerized in Julie Czerneda\u2019s Search Image<\/strong> (2018), by giving my surname to a continent, Lowesland. 🙂 The Tuckerization character in <\/em>Gathering was Jan Butterworth; while the <\/em>Daughter character was Che\u2019Ryl-g-Raham: aka Cheryl Graham. Both were also double namings, as Butterworth was also the name of Jan\u2019s village, while Che\u2019Ryl-g-Raham was the name of both a Sea House ship and its navigator.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I definitely don\u2019t just rename an already planned character because\u2014having given the Tuckerization away as part of launch celebrations\u2014I want the whole process to be special for the recipient. Giving the name to a pre-conceived minor character would feel a little like cheating on that process. So far neither Tuckerization character was difficult to write or include: they both pretty much came to life and wrote themselves. In fact, with Che\u2019Ryl-g-Raham it was more a case of saying a very firm authorial \u201cno\u201d to her cutting a swathe through <\/em>Daughter and assum<\/em>ing a greater part in the story, especially since she was already a reasonably significant player in the Grayharbor section.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Previous Thursday Q&A Refeatures:<\/h3>\n

March 31 \u2014 #1 Phoebe\u2019s Question on Book Planning<\/a><\/p>\n

April 21 \u2014 #2 Sam\u2019s Question on Deleted Scenes<\/a><\/p>\n

April 28 \u2014 #3 Sandy\u2019s Question on Characters That Take Charge<\/a><\/p>\n

May 19 \u2014 #4 Lindsay\u2019s Question on Research<\/a><\/p>\n

June 23 \u2014 #5 Chris\u2019s Question on Tirael & \u201cWhat Would Have Happened If\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

June 30 \u2014 #6 Rosie\u2019s Question on the Web of Mayanne<\/a><\/p>\n

September 8 \u2014 #7 Jason’s Question on Weapons & Names<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, I’ve been reprising a Daughter of Blood \u00a0(and by extension The Wall Of Night ) Q&A series that first featured in 2019. I think the questions merit another look so I hope you’re enjoying the refeature, too. \ud83d\ude42 Today’s question is from Robin, on the writing of Tuckerization characters. Robin: You\u2019ve had readers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,50,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-writing","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40688,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577\/revisions\/40688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}