I Found A Good Name For My Character. I Googled It. I Found Out It's A High Blood Pressure Drug.

Teveten, also known as Eprosartan, "is used alone or in combination with other medications to treat high blood pressure", according to PubMed Health.

What are the chances I came up with it for my main character?

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You see, I was looking at surnames that start with "T" on Most Common Surnames in the United States (excellent site for character names with all sorts of ways to search for just the right one. Seriously, go check it out!) and found "Tveten". I liked it. And since I thought it would be easier to read/pronounce with another "e", I changed it to Teveten.

And, just on the slim chance it might already be a name, I looked it up.

Discovered it's a drug.

Phooey.

Back to the drawing board.

Again.

Has this sort of thing ever happened to you?


-----The Golden Eagle