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Why do I keep doing it?

In the last few paragraphs of any new story I confuse names. I look out for it because I KNOW I have a tendency to slip up. In the story I have just submitted I didn't see a name that came out of nowhere until I had copied and pasted. As I looked through BEFORE the Preview, this time I found it and could correct it.

But why? When I used vanilla names followed by search/replace for the final character identifiers I could understand missing a typoed name. Now I do NOT use vanilla names nor search/replace. Yet I still confuse names in the final paragraphs...
 
oggbashan said:
Why do I keep doing it?

In the last few paragraphs of any new story I confuse names. I look out for it because I KNOW I have a tendency to slip up. In the story I have just submitted I didn't see a name that came out of nowhere until I had copied and pasted. As I looked through BEFORE the Preview, this time I found it and could correct it.

But why? When I used vanilla names followed by search/replace for the final character identifiers I could understand missing a typoed name. Now I do NOT use vanilla names nor search/replace. Yet I still confuse names in the final paragraphs...
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I always put a character chart right below the story for quick referencing. Names, ages, relations, sometimes measurements , all for my own edification. None of this gets published. It helps me keep things straight with how much I story hop.
 
TheeGoatPig said:
I always put a character chart right below the story for quick referencing. Names, ages, relations, sometimes measurements , all for my own edification. None of this gets published. It helps me keep things straight with how much I story hop.
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That's a good idea but the last time I did that I ended up with too many characters for easy reading.

What I have done sometimes is put a Post-It note on the computer tower. That works until I have a dozen Post-It notes because I'm working on that many stories at once. :eek:
 
I do wish someone would explain - properly - what all these CPU 'cores' actually DO.
It don't speed up my machine much. . . .
:(
 
Last night at the store I saw a tasty looking mac and cheese, but it only had microwave instructions, and I still don't own a microwave...
 
It's like calling a # seeking an answer. Then the receiving end is either message after message or a constant circle of referring you to someone else. When or if someone gives you an answer, you forgot what you were calling about.
 
I'm in survival mode and I just don't care anymore. What I do care about, doesn't care about me. I would walk away from everyone and everything in a heartbeat if it weren't for my daughter. I am so tired of trying.

Screaming into the void.
 
Serious anglers

From today's local paper:

One of our sea angling clubs held their March contest. The competitors shivered on the snow-covered beach for hours.

The Club Chairman won the contest this year - again!

Why?

He was the only one of the assembled club members to catch anything - a single flounder weighing a massive 7 ounces. After weighing it was released back into the sea.

Some years the March contest has no winner because no angler catches anything.

Will they abandon their March contest? Of course not. They have had March contests since 1897 (another year when they caught nothing because the sea was frozen up to half a mile out from the beach).
 
Actually catching a fish is a fortuitous accident that occasionally occurs whilst one is engaged in the practice of fishing.
 
Tio_Narratore said:
Actually catching a fish is a fortuitous accident that occasionally occurs whilst one is engaged in the practice of fishing.
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Occasionally, though, one tries to arrange all the variables to maximise the chances of success. Some people call it "wasting money," an expression hotly contested at times.
 
Handley_Page said:
Occasionally, though, one tries to arrange all the variables to maximise the chances of success. Some people call it "wasting money," an expression hotly contested at times.
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The gods do not deduct from a man's allotted time the hours spent in fishing. - ancient Babylonian proverb.
 
TxRad said:
Does one actually have to catch a fish to be called a fisherman?
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Emphatically, No! Again, actually catching a fish is a fortuitous (well, maybe not for the fish) accident.

By the way, we have dropped the gender specifier from the term and now refer simply to "fishers."
 
Tio_Narratore said:
Emphatically, No! Again, actually catching a fish is a fortuitous (well, maybe not for the fish) accident.

By the way, we have dropped the gender specifier from the term and now refer simply to "fishers."
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We bloody haven't !
Don't see too many females on the bank of the cut, though
 
Handley_Page said:
We bloody haven't !
Don't see too many females on the bank of the cut, though
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We have. And I presume you haven't been fishing in the Florida Keys, or pretty much any place in the US. I prefer "fisherfolk" to "fisher," just so we don't confuse them with the native small carnivorous mustelid.
 
One of my favorite trout spoons is made from a pair of dangly earrings. :D
 
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