From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   William Vetter  wrote:   
      
   > Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > > (My hero's father was actually Scandinavian, but I haven't figured out   
   > > from which part of Scandinavia yet -- which is part of the reason my   
   > > hero has not been named.  Maybe I'll go for him somethingly relatively   
   > > generic like Daniel Erikson, and then never specify what his father's   
   > > original nationality was.)   
   > >   
   > I think Friesland was grouped with "Danes" and Vikings at one time,   
   > seen not much different from Scandinavia.   
      
   I don't think adding possibilities to the ones I'm already having   
   difficulties choosing between is going to help me.   
      
   My main problem is really that it doesn't seem to matter to the story.   
      
   If it doesn't mattter to the story, then I have nothing telling me "Aha,   
   that's the right one!"  And without that sense of having found the   
   correct puzzle piece, I have trouble deciding on anything.   
      
   Sometimes I make a list and roll a die.   
      
   Although, I think I'm liking the name Daniel a lot, actually.  It seems   
   to fit.  It's not gratutiously ethnic "I will give my son a traditional   
   name so help me!" which I can't imagine his father being, but just a   
   nice sensible name that isn't likely to cause him a lot of trouble.   
   That fits what I know of his father very nicely.   
      
   I'm not so sure I have any good feelings about Erikson as his surname.   
   Maybe it will grow on me.   
      
      
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