If you have a character named Rose and need to change it,
it’s a simple as using the find and replace function in Word. How do I know this? Because I just changed the names of four
characters in my latest WIP (that’s Work In Progress for those of you not
fluent in writer-speak.) Is a
character’s name important? You
betcha!
I love the writerly life.
Well, most of the time. But it’s
a challenge for me to name characters.
Like most writers I know, I have in my writing toolbox a dog-eared copy
of The Very Best Baby Name Book in the
Whole Wide World. I use it find good
first names for my characters. Back in
the old days I also had a copy of the White Pages on hand so I could thumb
through and find the perfect last name to go with the first name. When’s the last time you saw a copy of the
White Pages? Yeah, it’s been a while for
me, too. The online version is not the
same because you can’t just skim it but have to give it a name to look for. Sigh.
Technology is making my job more difficult.
