It has not escaped me that all my main characters have names that end in the “eee” sound. Molly, Kami, Lexi, Sydney and Jamie. Even though Meg Cabot tells us that authors who say things like, “My characters tell me what to do, I have no control over them” are nuts because the author is in charge here, I still “wait for the character to reveal his or her name” and so far, all my main characters are into the “eee” sound.

What struck me as odd last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, is all the best friends and secondary characters seem to have names ending in the “uh” sound. There is Becca, Julia, Jenna, and Krista.

And then, while my husband was snoring away, and I wished I was also asleep, I thought back to how my name has a silent “e” on the end, but my whole life people have called me things like Jo-lee and Jo-Ellie (and JoEllen, Joella, Joleen, and yes, even Jell-O) and I started thinking that perhaps having a distinct ending to the names of my characters is my way making sure that people say their names right (although Kami is pronounced “commie” and probably people will read it as “cami”, so there goes that theory).

Maybe middle of the night curiosities are not the best material for a blog post…unless any of you fancy yourself an amateur Freud and can tell me why I’ve fallen into this naming pattern.