- Siriano;:
- Not really a specific name, but I hate when there's a story with a lot of characters, but everyone has a different name. Like, there is only one Josh or Tyler in the whole story. It just doesn't work like that. I know maybe four other Rachels. It just really kills realism for me. :/
This annoys me too. Especially in a series of books, you could easily end up with fifty or even a hundred named characters appearing somewhere, even if it's just for one scene. To give every single one of these people different names is pretty unrealistic. It's especially annoying if the story is set maybe in a school, where all the characters are similar ages and live in the same area, because there will be popular, 'ordinary' names that all the parents liked, so there will probably be about ten people called James or Ellie in an average school.
If they're just minor characters, it's not like the readers are going to get confused, either. I have a story with two characters called George. They never meet each other and they're only in about one or two scenes each, so it's not like it will confuse readers; it just makes the story a little more realistic.