LogFAQs > #979910457

This is sad. I've bounced around character names so many times that I've forgotten the current name of the story's primary antagonist. I realized there was a scene that would make a more logical introduction for her character than the flat intro that she otherwise would have received later in the story. But when I went to do a search for her name, I couldn't remember what it was. I'd thought about meaningful names, names that phonetically sound like words that would suggest her character, and names inspired by songs from bands that have sung about subjects with a loose connection to my story. Nothing really seems to fit.

I really need to sit down and write this. Instead, I've spent most of my free time on this three-day weekend watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 and YouTube video reviews. (Oh, and I beat Contra on NES.) I have made a couple of changes to my story. I feel I've given my opening scene the little mmph that it was missing and I've tied up one of my story's plot holes. But still, I should have accomplished more.

I hate using placeholder names. I always get that phantom fear that somebody's going to discover my outline and think that "Dave," "Alice," and "Mike" are the most creative names that I can come up with. Or else they'll read Dirt Cop, Valley Girl, and Alt Kid and somehow not connect the dots that those are placeholders meant to suggest the nature of the characters. (My story doesn't have an emo youth or a valley girl, btw. There is a dirt cop though.)