It isn't just one of your holiday games

[stillsostrange]

Thank you to everyone who weighed in on the name change question. I'm afraid some of you will be disappointed, though. I can't let Varis and Vargas appear multiple times on the same page (much as I couldn't handle Kieran and Kiril), but there will not be any cute in-text reasons for this. (Okay, I say that now, but I may think of one later.) I just have to change it. The first reader who actually notices will get a cookie.

The true lesson to be learned from this is: there's no such thing as a throwaway name. At least if one is writing a series, anyway. One never knows when Random Character Bob will show up again, and when he does, you may regret naming him Bob.

In other news, Agent F just passed out while watching Animal Planet an hour before her bedtime. This is an unlooked for windfall of writing time, if I can manage not to pass out.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

This is why, in my Scrivener projects, I have a folder with tabs in it for all the names I've used in the book, sorted alphabetically. I think that so far I've managed to avoid duplicating first letters--mostly by only naming characters when I have to--though nicknames do complicate that. It can't last.