Timeline for How to avoid mentioning the name of a character?
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| Nov 16, 2018 at 8:45 | comment | added | Robert Frost | @Don01001100 p.s. If I were writing this I'd probably dance around the not using of the name by talking about the name at length, how they react upon hearing it, what the name means to the person, when they last heard it, why they're surprised to hear it, what it might mean that somebody uttered it etc | |
| Nov 16, 2018 at 2:36 | comment | added | Robert Frost | @Don01001100 you could precede it with mention of calling out but you needn't. I like economy of word so I probably wouldn't. E.g. you could begin "he walked directly towards X, his gaze fixed, but upon hearing his name called from a grey figure huddled on the sand, he turned..." | |
| Nov 16, 2018 at 1:13 | comment | added | Becca | What would go just before this? Something like "Balt called out to the Old Man, and upon hearing his name, he turned...," perhaps? I'm not sure why burying the mention of the name in a preposition phrase makes it feel less jarring to me than Kale Slade's suggestion. | |
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| Nov 13, 2018 at 22:39 | history | answered | Robert Frost | CC BY-SA 4.0 |