{"id":710,"date":"2011-04-20T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2011-04-18T21:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T02:29:53","slug":"when-renaming-characters-is-a-dismeima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/20\/when-renaming-characters-is-a-dismeima\/","title":{"rendered":"When Renaming Characters is a DisMeima"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure I could find a better way to make a mess of a draft than by renaming all the characters–and messing up search and replace.<\/p>\n

First, in my haste, I forgot to check “whole words only” and “keep case”. For most names that wasn’t a big deal–but Aster and Owl, among others, caused some trouble. Spilling your bGeral of soup isn’t exactly a disMeima, but it is a pain to clean up.<\/p>\n

I fixed that by scanning the draft for misspelled words and then searching for every new one I found. I think I got most of them. It’s taken me until chapter 5 to find a disMeima that I missed.<\/p>\n

But I just found a new problem: This scene *used* to star Marsh and Wolf. Now it stars Rimon, Geros, and Hel. Uh-oh. I’d changed Marsh to Hel, then decided I didn’t like it and changed Hel to Rimon. Anyone want to guess why that went slightly wrong?<\/p>\n

(I know you can’t stand the suspense.)<\/p>\n

Remembering to check “whole words only” meant I missed the possessives. At least that was an easy fix. Their poor son doesn’t need three parents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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