ao3commentoftheday:Trivia TuesdayCreators: give a “behind the scenes” look at one of your works. Thi
ao3commentoftheday:Trivia TuesdayCreators: give a “behind the scenes” look at one of your works. This could be things that got removed or changed, the origins of ideas/details, whatever you like!Fans: share bits of trivia from canon and challenge others to create something based on that trivia - fic, art, or something else! I once made a crossword puzzle :)Feel free to repost this header!Behind the scenes look at City of Angels – Character Names“Carrie” came first, then “Carolina.” I call this “reverse nicknaming,” a process in which I first determine a character’s nickname or the shortened version of their name that they tend to go by, and then determine their full name afterwards. I knew I wanted my main character to be called “Carrie,” but I didn’t like the name Caroline (it reminded me too much of Little House on the Prairie). Hence, I settled on Carolina (pronounced Caro-LYE-na, not Caro-LEE-na).Samantha’s name has a rather amusing origin. In the early stages of conceptualizing City of Angels–when it still existed primarily in my head and I hadn’t yet edited out the unnecessary melodrama–there was a scene in which Don overheard Carrie talking affectionately on the phone with someone she addressed as “Sam.” This, of course, resulted in an angsty misunderstanding, as he believed Sam to be a male and possibly Carrie’s significant other. He later asked Carrie about this, only to discover that “Sam” was Samantha, her sister. Eventually I decided that this scene had to go, but the name Samantha and nickname “Sam” remained. xD -- source link
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