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| Author: | Lady Eruwaedhiel [ August 3rd, 2011, 4:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Characters with Changing Names |
Okay, a little bit of a dilemma here - Have any of you ever had a character who was known by one name, but was then found out to be someone else entirely? I have this problem with not one, but two of my characters. And for the first little while I can't decide what to call them. I mean, we know her as Mary, but when Mary suddenly turns out to be Sue, what does the character who thought she was Mary call her in the descriptions? Mary? Or Sue? 
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| Author: | Bethany Faith [ August 3rd, 2011, 4:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters with Changing Names |
Being the amateur that I am, I would do one of three things...have the narrator switch names casually: Casually wrote: Mary-I mean...Sue reached down to pick up the broken vase. Have the character in the book, the one that's writing the book, refer to her as Sue and then have the narrator switch to Sue...so...something like: Dialogue Change wrote: "So you're Sue now?" I said. Mary nodded. "Oh...that might take some getting used to, Sue." I chuckled. Sue smiled. Or...more of a serious approach would be to sort of put a sentence in there that states the change has been made. Plain and Simple wrote: So that was the secret and it had been discovered. She was not Mary, but rather, Sue. Silently, I resigned to start calling her by her real name and with that, she became Sue... Of course...all of those examples are really just for examples, I'm sure you can write it better, but you know, hopefully I explained the ideas well enough. Bethany Faith |
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| Author: | Airianna Valenshia [ August 10th, 2011, 8:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters with Changing Names |
Good ideas, Bethy, but I don't know many places where E's book would flow like that, making it hard for her to implement those. But I could let her speak for herself.  I would say one of two things, E. Either Mary (now wonders who Mary really is) tells everyone to call her by her real name, or she tells everyone to call her by her previous name. Or You could have your characters slip up and call her Mary, instead of Sue, from time to time, while slowly having the slip ups occur less and less, to the point where eventually, you just use Sue instead of Mary. |
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| Author: | Lady Eruwaedhiel [ August 10th, 2011, 6:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters with Changing Names |
I have the characters correct themselves a few times, mostly in internal monologue, but most of my problem is with narrative. I mean, which name DO you use? |
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| Author: | Airianna Valenshia [ August 10th, 2011, 7:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Characters with Changing Names |
Which ever one she is actually going to go by, I think. |
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