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    Kallie, that made me smile, but yes it could be awkward for a person and the author.

    I'm sure I posted on the forum before that I 'Google' my character names before I post just in case this happens. I had a near miss on an early story. The closest I've come since was someone thinking Aurelius might be a long-lost relative. Oh, how the Aurelius clan has declined!

    If there is a writing tips section on this site I recommend that Googling character names is added. If a writer is committed on a name it's pretty easy to vary the spelling to 'ungoogle' it, and save another poor job hunter from further embarrassment.

    I wonder whether Shane enjoyed the story?

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    I don't ever seen to have troubles coming up with names for characters no matter what I write. A lot of my names are generic, however, though I do some spelling improvisations, like Jehsea instead of Jessie.

    As for proof reading. Always. Mostly my proofreading is for typos. My typing skills leave a lot to be desired. Microsoft word does take care of a lot of that, though. Aside from typing, my biggest hurdle is punctuation. I sometimes get confused as to where the commas or semi colons go. I am always looking for proofreaders, though TG is pretty good about doing that for me.
    Life is like lemonade, sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet, but very rarely perfect. ~Me~

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    LOL, I proof like mad, sometimes have my husband proof, too, and I still find at least one glaring mistake AFTER the story goes live. Guess I shouldn't feel too awful about it, though--I find minimum a dozen errors in most New York Times bestsellers, too. Guess some mistakes have an anti-proofing field around them.


    Kallie

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    LOL. Yeah I have found several spelling/printing errors in a few of the books that I have and those are from big name publishing companies!
    Life is like lemonade, sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet, but very rarely perfect. ~Me~

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    proofreading/name selection

    Although I would be happy to offer my services as a proofreader for anyone who feels they could use the help, probably my qualifications are not nearly as good as Morrighan's, judging be the careful and cogent way in which she phrases her posts [whether I agree with her opinions or not]. I would venture the opinion, though, that it is difficult to proofread without editorializing, so it would certainly be helpful if the writer and proofreader are sympathetic in terms of the nature of the subject matter. So before anyone sends me anything to proof, please take a look at some of my own work and see if it rings a bell with you, or if indeed you feel that I am qualified for such a task.

    As far as naming fictional characters is concerned, I don't know how important the name you choose really is, although they do need to be appropriate to the time and place of the story. Obviously it would be difficult to create a convincing male dom with a name like Milton or Melvin, but I have no problem using fairly generic names and letting the characters' actions define them. I had a lot more trouble naming my daughter when she was born, since I knew it was something she would have to live with for the rest of her life. The good thing about fictional characters is that you can always change them... with any word processing program it's a simple matter to just command it to switch "Angela" for "Alison" throughout the whole text. So don't let it bog you down...just pick a working name and go ahead with your story. When and if you think of something better it's easy to change.
    Last edited by teamster; 04-17-2004 at 08:46 AM. Reason: misspelling

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    That's a great idea, Teamster. (I mean the name switching thing.) You would not believe how much time I waste just trying to name my character.

    Morrighan
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    Proofreaders wanted, really?

    Please, i would love to!

    I am an instinctive proofreader and the main problem I have reading nearly anything is that I can't turn it off! No matter how engrossed I am in the content of what I am reading, be it job ads or fiction, the spelling/grammar/punctuation errors just leap at me distractingly. I would love to find legitimate employment for my talent/curse but I can't.

    I have been coming to this site for a little while now and yes, having now visited the forums and seen some of the input here, I will try to review some of what I have read. In the meantime, many thanks to all of you who have put yourselves out here. However, I have to say that for me the #1 reason for failing to continue to read any story past the first page is the obvious lack of proofing. It pains me too much to think that the author had no sympathetic and literate friends to run it by before posting.

    If I can help anyone here I would feel a little useful and I have nothing better to do.

    janie

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