OK, I'm skipping posts wholesale in an effort to catch up in all my threads now that I'm starting to feel like a functional human being again, so what's this newfangled LJ drabble thinggy and how does it work?

In other writerly news, I've decided to change the name of a major character in both the finished novel and the WIP, because I decided it was too much to have three important characters with the same first initial. Currently his name is Julius, and he has to have a Shakespearean name, as the brother of Hal, Portia, and Cordelia. It also needs to be a good name for a tall, blond, handsome, pompous, chauvinistic ass. So, I'm sitting here with my complete works of Shakespeare, and y'all get to help me pick a new name! My ideas are:

Ferdinand
Sebastian
Benedick
Demetrius
Bertram
Octavius
Titus

I'm kinda leaning toward Octavius. It's a very weird feeling, to contemplate doing a global find-and-replace on a major character, but I'd rather change his name than my other two J-men, since James and Jack are heroes and my two favorite characters in the entire books.

what's this newfangled LJ drabble thinggy and how does it work?

It's a non-fanfic drabble community. Doesn't necessarily have to be fiction; it can be prose, essay-ish, haiku -- just not fanfic. 100 words, or in the ballpark. I'll post the new challenge every Monday.

And you can join the LJ community here.

I like Demetrius.

me too.

I lean towards Titus, but mainly because I recently saw a production.

I like Demetrius too.

Thanks, Teppy!

Demetrius could work....

I like Benedick. To the non-Shakespearean folks, it conjurs up feelings of betrayal, a la Benedict Arnold. To me, it conjurs up pictures of Kenneth Branagh looking cute.

For the time period in question, and his social background?

I think, alas, that it's either Bertram or Sebastian. Which is a pity, really, considering all the other names, but who he is and where he comes from has to be taken into account, as well.

Between those, Sebastian is better, imo.