Whitechapel - REnaming characters Fri, 24 May 2013 08:49:47 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher REnaming characters http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280187#Comment_280187 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280187#Comment_280187 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:44:37 -0800 XIbalba2012 Over the years my blue-faced villain had evolved quite a bit from the Mr.Sinister/Mad Darwinist rip-off it had started out as, to something far more complex(I guess that's natural when toying with the same ideas for more than a decade). Nowadays, of coarse, the word "avatar" is thrown quite a lot, and more often than not, the word is not used in accordance with it's actual definition. Thus, I feel the name of the character MUST be changed, simply for commercial reasons. I don't believe using the name for the villain could get me hit with a cease and desist, but people now have a picture or two in their heads associated with the word, that I don't want to evoke. Sigh. Another hold up on an Idea nearly 20 years in the making.... ]]> REnaming characters http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280194#Comment_280194 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280194#Comment_280194 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:37:45 -0800 stsparky REnaming characters http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280199#Comment_280199 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280199#Comment_280199 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:46:19 -0800 Oxbrow
Reach for a thesaurus if you're using a word as a name. Or look at the origins of the name or the equivalents in other languages.

Look at similar terms, like Incarnate or Harbinger.

Steal from history, or out-of-copyright fiction. When I wanted to suggest an alien race were like ghouls, I called them Vathek, after the novel that introduced the word to the English language. ]]> REnaming characters http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280204#Comment_280204 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280204#Comment_280204 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:24:55 -0800 XIbalba2012
Oxbrow: Thanks a ton for the "origins of the name" link. That'll come in great handy in many other realms of research I dabble in.

On another note, speaking of the English language...why does my spell checker not recognize "that'll" as a proper contraction? Is it not? ]]> REnaming characters http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280209#Comment_280209 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280209#Comment_280209 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:50:35 -0800 Paul Duffield REnaming characters http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280215#Comment_280215 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280215#Comment_280215 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:27:09 -0800 Alan Tyson REnaming characters http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280223#Comment_280223 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280223#Comment_280223 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:13:47 -0800 stsparky REnaming characters http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280261#Comment_280261 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9457&Focus=280261#Comment_280261 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:22:24 -0800 Brendan McGinley
However, last week, everyone else's discovery of the whole Ophiuchus thing took a little edge off an upcoming issue of Invisible, Inc.

Ideaspace, man, it'll get you any which way. ]]>