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The Bringer! November 1st, 2008 8:30 PM

Oh, noes!
 
I think I be needin' some advice. While writing a chapter of my fic, I gave a character who is part of team rocket and an integral part of the story the name James. Now, at the time this seemed just dandy because James is an average name for a male of the human species. It only occured to me that James is a cannon character after I posted the chapter. So, my question is: Should I go back and change this character's name? Pretty simple question, right?

JX Valentine November 1st, 2008 8:44 PM

It would probably be a good idea to edit now that you've caught it early. The reason why is because if you keep doing this, people are going to try to smack you for canon violation because they'll think you're writing about the canon character James instead of your own OC.

So, yeah, it's completely kosher to put up a notice saying you're editing the names now and get it done with quickly because it's only the first chapter (I assume). A good way to go about doing this is simply copy-pasting the content of the chapter into a word processor (like Microsoft Word) and hitting CTRL+F. If you're in Word (because I'm not sure if you can do this with anything else), there should be a tab that says "replace." Click on it, and you should see two boxes: one that says "Find what" and another that says "Replace with." Type "James" into the first box and your new name into the second and hit "Replace All." Boom. Done.

The longer version is using CTRL+F (or whatever find feature your word processor has) to locate each individual usage of the name "James" and replacing them by hand. After you replace one, though, you can always copy it and paste it into the other instances.

Either way, after that, it's just a quick copy-paste job into the edit screen. The entire process should only take a couple minutes.

Edit: And even if it's not the first chapter, if this is the first one he's appeared in, you're still okay to go back and edit.

The Bringer! November 3rd, 2008 8:57 PM

Alright, thanks for the advice Xanthine.


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