[stylist] 😊 character name changes and how I construct my stories

[Shelley Alongi]

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> On Aug 17, 2015, at 6:07 PM, Shelley Alongi via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Here is how I write my story is just for some information. I usually will sit down with a particular ending in mind. I choose a placeholder name I like that phrase can't reset it. I think it was Bridget. And I work with that and I just right. I start with a kind of beginning sometimes in clear ideas and sometimes in confusing ideas. I just put everything on paper. Then, I decide what I like and what I don't like and which ideas work for me. Sometimes in the middle of all this I come up with a better ending. It's kind of interesting if I have to think about what I write it's harder to get it on paper. But, if I just run with an idea and type it sort of with my eyes closed, say, then I look up and say oh I like that. And, sometimes what I do once I get the idea in my head as I will find a place to daydream and then I can flush out my characters or give them better things to say or do. Dialogue is interesting. When constructing dialogue I just write down whatever comes into my Head whether it sounds like a good idea or not. It might be something small. Then, when I go back I sort out the dialogue and say I don't like them or out they don't need to say that here or this is just extraneous. It's kind of like taking a container full of blocks dumping it on the floor and sorting them that was kind of how I write :-) and then in the middle of all that to get back to the original point, sometimes the character names change. It looks kind of confusing when you read it but it's not :-) and, I'm usually very happy with the ending. But, if I don't have an ending to start with and then I can't start the process at all so I usually start with an ending with the idea and the knowledge that it might very well change. Kind of how I live my life start with one idea and on the way to achieving it to you something completely different
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> So, that's why I asked about name changes. I usually will change at least one name. In this instance when I really working on this book, and I have people who have inspired me to finish it, and now I've assembled a team of people to help me make sure it's a better Book, I was a little hesitant about name changes but I really think they will be for the best and I will end up with better characters. Besides, I kind of like the ring of my character with his new name first middle and last. It's like my baby. Now let's not start that because I don't know how anybody comes up the baby names and keep them the same :-)
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> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/salongi712%40yahoo.com and then, just a couple of more things. When my story starts to take shape as I am daydreaming and getting images in my head and sorting them then I start doing research. And so sometimes when I end up with is the story with all these leftover ideas. And all this leftover information. Then what I do is I take all that information put it in a file somewhere and say oh that might work better in another story. So there's never any waste :-)