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Salamander
Fire Walking

When global change fails
Sat Jun 12 2004

The main character's original name was Agnes. I liked it better. It sounded like a nice, thoughtful, middle-aged woman's name. But I didn't think I could justify that to Mrs. Gotta-Pick-the-Right-Name-for-Everyone. So I changed it to Nadia, using the global change feature. For some reason, that one instance of the old name was not changed. I was so used to seeing the old name from the first dozen rewrites that the one remaining example of it didn't get caught in subsequent proof-readings.

Actually, this was just a quiz to see who was paying attention. Yeah, that's right. A quiz. Right. Glad you all passed.

8 Comments
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jun 13 2004
    "On the day Agnes died..." Is this Nadia? The name threw me for a loop when I thought another character was being introduced.

    I like it though!
    Alli
  • From:
    Sillyrabbit (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jun 13 2004
    I was going to make the same comment as Alli....
    I also enjoyed it! I don't know that I could have done that. I tend to ramble on and never get to the point. Great job!!!
    Megan
  • From:
    TraumaMama (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jun 13 2004
    I liked it too! It drew me right in.
  • From:
    Toverfee (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jun 13 2004
    Damnit, still can't access your friends only entries :(.
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jun 13 2004
    Ah, those ARE a lot of constraints!
    AND having to name the characters in meaningful ways.... could set me off into the looney bin.
    I ALREADY have a hard time naming in my stories....
    But it's true, writing to parameters DOES make you stretch. Paramiters? Paramaters?

    Specific requirements! There!

    Hope you get a good grade.
  • From:
    Antigone (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Jun 14 2004
    Very nice. Well done. I like the name Nadia. My bf's father died of Leukemia. Some rare form not discovered until it was much too late to do anything about.

    Best of luck with your writing class!
  • From:
    ElfWithAttitude (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Jun 14 2004
    I too liked it, however it does not "feel" you are writing this.

    I love your usual style...long, rambling and stops along the way about all the little interesting facts you normally *ramble* about.I love it when you stop us readers in mid sentence to smell the roses.

    I was left feeling *I want more*. Does that make sense? Sort of got the bread without the filling.
  • From:
    Lilith (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jun 15 2004
    I echo what Elf said.