In case you hadn't made the connection, this refers to my long running saga Falling off a bike.
I'm sure there are all sorts of errors in it because it's written at speed and like one or two other goddesses, I occasionally forget details. When they are pointed out I try to correct them. This is about one such point. Those who didn't notice - tut tut! I shall asking questions afterwards.
In episode 414 I named Tom's daughter Catherine, in 455 I called her Julie. It was a cock up, but in the great British tradition, I'm celebrating it. See I am almost human, but being divine - I forgive myself :)
Angharad.
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Forgiven
Angharad: Your Forgiven, Just don't quit writing your great stories! Richard
Richard
Headache
I'm glad that it hasn't all gone to your head!
“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.â€
(Blaise Pascal)
At some point...
Almost every young girl decides to change her name. My own sister decided at one point -- with help from one of her pals -- that she wanted a "cuter" name than the one she was given at birth.
It's entirely possible that Catherine, or Julie, decided at one point to try out different names. Most of us have two names anyway, one of which furnishes the ubiquitous "middle initial" box on official forms with something to stuff in it.
You might celebrate the *other* grand tradition of writers and storytellers everywhere and pretend you meant to have it that way all along.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.
--- Robert Fulghum
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
--- Toni Cade Bambara
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
And here I was thinking...
That Tom's daughter was Catherine Julliette or Juliette Catherine... I'm devistated. (well, not quite.)
Annette
I thought I replied to this
They are both her names. Either one is her middle name or it is her nickname.
My mother was Ellen but to most of her close friends and family she was Rose, her middle name or Rosie.
So you can weasle out of this if you claim they are both her name, simple?
P.S. I my own stories I have so many characters now *I* forget thir names at times.
Joan in
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John in Wauwabanananana, Um Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa