Day 183: What's in a name?

It’s Writing Day!

Writing Prompt: What does your name suggest you do?

Aptronyms are names that are well-suited to their owners, think the very fast Usain Bolt. It’s one example of nominative determinism, a theory that people are drawn to activities and work that suits their name.

Of course, many people have surnames that are professions. It’s fun to imagine that happening with modern occupations: Joe Regionalmanagerson, Karen Servicerepresentative, Tom Accountant.

And some people just have really great names. Name of the Year is an annual bracket of excellently-named actual people. This year’s winner was Mathdaniel Squirrel.

What’s in your name? Has it had an impact on your life?

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Catch up on previous Writing days:

• Write badly on purpose

• Play Exquisite Corpse

• Write a story from a non-human perspective

• Start a dream journal

• Film-noir narration

• Use your senses

• Write a six-word memoir

• Is a picture worth 1,000 words?

• Imagine your calendar for this time next year

• Try blackout poetry

• Write a letter to someone

• What’s your lockdown language?

• Document your life right now

• Is there a fact you can’t forget?

• What’s your personal meme?

• What made you realize you were an adult?

• Make a mini-presentation about something interesting

• Who was your best teacher? Who was your worst?

• Have an AI do the writing for you

• How have you changed?

• Learn about word origins

• Design an ad from the future

• What’s the best advice you’ve been given?

• Write a one-star review of your dinner

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