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*pelvic thrust*
*triumphal grunt*
got all the characters named and i wrote my opening scene for the new original thing with the mammoths in it and yeahhhh woooo ok the opening scene is really fucking boring and I’m going to have to scrap this whole thing.
BUT. It’s a start.
I named everyone, at least. It only took hours, LOL. But I’ve found if I don’t sit down and try to work out a sort of naming scheme in my head and mull over the characters’ names and relationships, then I’ll be tempted to Ctrl+F find and replace the names like eighty times and I will literally forget who someone is and the thing will never, ever quite cohere and I’ll have written 350,000 words and be ready to publish it and still be finding artifacts of the original names or, worse, the like fourth-gen names in there, even if I did the rewrite-from-scratch level of editing because once names are in there your eyes pass over them and you’ll totally wind up typing the wrong one at some point.
So that’s my advice for long stuff: don’t waste eighty years and all your impetus coming up with, like, stat sheets and worldbuilding bullshit, but spend the time to come up with a coherent naming system, and DO NOT cave and start writing a draft with a “temporary” name for someone. Don’t do it. Don’t do it.
I’ve got a lot of thoughts about how to name characters but I think that’s a good start for now.
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*pelvic thrust*
*triumphal grunt*
got all the characters named and i wrote my opening scene for the new original thing with the mammoths in it and yeahhhh woooo ok the opening scene is really fucking boring and I’m going to have to scrap this whole thing.
BUT. It’s a start.
I named everyone, at least. It only took hours, LOL. But I’ve found if I don’t sit down and try to work out a sort of naming scheme in my head and mull over the characters’ names and relationships, then I’ll be tempted to Ctrl+F find and replace the names like eighty times and I will literally forget who someone is and the thing will never, ever quite cohere and I’ll have written 350,000 words and be ready to publish it and still be finding artifacts of the original names or, worse, the like fourth-gen names in there, even if I did the rewrite-from-scratch level of editing because once names are in there your eyes pass over them and you’ll totally wind up typing the wrong one at some point.
So that’s my advice for long stuff: don’t waste eighty years and all your impetus coming up with, like, stat sheets and worldbuilding bullshit, but spend the time to come up with a coherent naming system, and DO NOT cave and start writing a draft with a “temporary” name for someone. Don’t do it. Don’t do it.
I’ve got a lot of thoughts about how to name characters but I think that’s a good start for now.
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