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Dear BDH,

As you know, sometimes we use certain writers to help us illustrate our blog posts. It has been brought to our attention that they need to be named.

We will start with the fan favorite: Working Writer Man, the one we all know and love.

Yes, we are talking about you. What are you doing?

Oh you’re working. So sorry to disturb. How is it going?

You’re feeling inspired. How nice. Pass some of that inspiration my way. Do you think you’re going to meet your deadline?

We will leave you to your pain.

Leave you naming suggestions below, one name per reader. Comments with multiple names will be removed to avoid confusion. Multiple comments from the same readers will be removed also. You have one shot, so make it count. If you see the name you like, comment +1 under it. We will gather top suggestions and make a poll so you can vote on them.

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  9. Willy Wiggleweapon (nickname one of my high school friends came up with for William Shakespeare).

  45. Meti Culous III. (I split up meticulous).
    Because as writers I feel like thats how you guys go over your work to give us the great worlds and characters. And the the 3rd because he looks like he come from a line of successful writers.

    • shoot! apparently I’m two days late. I also see Jack White any time they use these images, so I just commented Jack Write and then started scrolling through the HUNDREDS of suggestions. I am both saddened to realize I’m not the first/cleverest to suggest this but also gladdened to feel someone out there thinks like me…

  61. Snape Jr. because he really reminds me of what I imagine a relative Severus Snape would look like!

  64. Alfred P. Writerman (pronounced writermun). Alfie for short if he is feeling whimsical. No one knows what the P stands for. It’s a closely guarded secret.

  66. Ok if anyone has watched the Witcher he very much reminds me of Jaskier! His facial expressions just fit so well!!!!

  79. His first name is something, but he uses his middle name as his muse. His middle name is William.

  81. Beverly Pratt.

    I’m reading late 18th century biographies right now and Beverly has caught me several times being a man’s name rather than a woman’s. And Pratt in homage to Spike from Buffy, whose real last name was Pratt and who was an angsty poet before he was turned.

  91. These are all such great names! I’m glad I picked mine before looking, or this list would have sent me into choice paralyzation.

    • I thought Peirre (no last name) but after watching David D’s David D. says post of the eurovision contestant im totally onboard with Edgar 🙂

      David D. says
      July 12, 2023 at 4:22 pm

      I thought the same thing, but only because I’ve listening to this song too much.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMmLeV47Au4

      Reply

  95. Ed Letterman. combines the editor with the wordsmith 🙂 plus it reminds me of Ed Vedder and I enjoy me some Pearl Jam.

  108. Crispin Bartholemew-Dubois.
    He looks like a double-barrelled name kinda guy
    Crispin Bartholomew to show his Englishness and that hair has Crispin written all over it.
    Dubois from his maternal French side of the family – I see that jaunty beret

  168. lol Came to Name him Edgar, Edgar Wittman. Seems many like the Edgar already. Any idea what the model’s real name is? Will he hate Edgar?

    • For some reason I went to Alfred as well & as Batman’s loyal valet it fits.

      We already have Derek as Boy wonder even though he has passed the boy wonder stage … we now need an Alfred!

  179. For some reason, possibly due to the variety of hilarious expressions I want to tack on “the Emotional “ as in – John the Emotional

  200. Godfrey.

    (Last name possibly Higginbotham. Plus a lot of middle names, to fit in all the gems on this comments board!)

  213. Too bad he wasn’t a she. Then we could name her Lorna Sterling after Andrea’s favorite author.

  214. Could we vote on the top 5 or 10 names? There are a lot of names on this list already and some people may not scroll through the page to view them all.

  219. oh…I’m leaning towards Augustus the Author. Because an author must assume many faces 🙂

  235. He is already named “Ichabod” in my head, whatever his official name turns out to be, hehe.

  267. Algernon Fitzwilliam Frobisher.

    Definitely Algernon, my husband thought he looked like a Frobisher, and he seemed to need a third part to his name!

  299. Francis Quill. He just looks like a Francis, (never-answers-to-Frank). And well, Quill is a given, haha.

  334. Oscar Featherstonehaugh.
    (I’ve been weirdly fascinated by that last name since I learned it’s pronounced “FAN-shaw”. English is a very strange language, even for the native speakers. And Oscar is named for Oscar Wilde.)

  335. i think he looks like an Edgar. and i liked Bookman for a last name until i saw McQuill, and Quillman, because he HAS to have quill in his name. but then i saw Quillsbottom and descended into giggles and i think Edgar Quillsbottom is the best.

    • omg. I didn’t realize Edgar had already been suggested. Submitted name before I read the comments.

    • There was a trend in Quebec a couple of decades ago with parents who wanted to give both their surnames to theirs kids* and to top it off, two first names as well because why not. We have now a generation full of people with 4 names.

      * We don’t change our last name when we get married, and we don’t get married as much as other cultures, so this trend was somewhat logic,

  366. Roland – LOL

    To keep with the tower building and mythology theme :

    Yahweh
    Marduk
    Thoth since he was the Consort to Seshat….