Love this piece Paige! I so agree with you that getting someone's name correct is so important to me. Usually by writing it but also in saying it. When you live a foreign country that becomes even more evident! And I can speak Spanish too. But I have friends called Claire, spelled with an 'I' and without. But because they are good friends, and I 'should' know, I haven't yet had the nerve to ask which way they spell their names and so I just avoid writing their names in whats app messages and call them chicas and lovelies instead!! We have a personal one too and my husband is named Graham, which Spanish people get right, yet English people spell it Graeme! Anyway, hope you get back to your novel without ditching it. I don't know about you, but I have so many ideas flying around from INK&FLAME, it feels like I've got ten novels on the go!!
What an excellent point! I’ve have native Spanish speakers pronounce the E on the end of my name, but because I know that all vowels make a sound in Spanish I don’t mind it- it’s just evidence of their raising.
and INKANDFLAME!! It’s funny- when I take the writing prompts and “answer them” in the voice of my characters, I find such goodness. But, as someone who historically writes in a memoir space I actually have to prompt myself to do that or I go deep (too deep?) into my own psyche. Regardless, it’s been invaluable to me by proving to myself that I can/ should keep showing up.
Love this piece Paige! I so agree with you that getting someone's name correct is so important to me. Usually by writing it but also in saying it. When you live a foreign country that becomes even more evident! And I can speak Spanish too. But I have friends called Claire, spelled with an 'I' and without. But because they are good friends, and I 'should' know, I haven't yet had the nerve to ask which way they spell their names and so I just avoid writing their names in whats app messages and call them chicas and lovelies instead!! We have a personal one too and my husband is named Graham, which Spanish people get right, yet English people spell it Graeme! Anyway, hope you get back to your novel without ditching it. I don't know about you, but I have so many ideas flying around from INK&FLAME, it feels like I've got ten novels on the go!!
What an excellent point! I’ve have native Spanish speakers pronounce the E on the end of my name, but because I know that all vowels make a sound in Spanish I don’t mind it- it’s just evidence of their raising.
and INKANDFLAME!! It’s funny- when I take the writing prompts and “answer them” in the voice of my characters, I find such goodness. But, as someone who historically writes in a memoir space I actually have to prompt myself to do that or I go deep (too deep?) into my own psyche. Regardless, it’s been invaluable to me by proving to myself that I can/ should keep showing up.
Thank you so much for reading.