You've actually run into a published book where a character got referred to by a different names?

See also 19th century Russian novels.

One of the ones I remember was a Sookie Stackhouse book. I can't remember the character's name, some dude in town, but his facial hair was described in detail and his last name was Hunter.

About 2/3 of the way in, his first name suddenly changed from Bob or whatever to "Catfish."

So I figured she'd been basing the character on Catfish Hunter and hadn't caught all the uses of the name with global search-and-replace.

Luckseller is really good so far (I was able to get about 1/2 through last night, where they are just driving away from the roadside rest stop).

Yay!

Thank you so much Gud!

Glad to do it.

I've got Cog experimental chapter 1 rewrite written. Well, I need to go over it and then decide if it works before putting it in the to-be-revised bucket.

I wrote a lot when I was a little kid, like all kids do, I suppose, but I got very lazy about it in high school and university, even though many professors told me that I was pretty good.

Anyway, an idea popped into my head the other day and I hashed out a ton of brainstorming ideas, and I am very pleasantly surprised at how eager I seem to write again! So far what I have would probably be a better TV pilot than a novel, and all that is is a couple pages of inane stream-of-consciousness rambling, but it's definitely more than I've written in years. So that counts for something, right? Give my brain something to do other than watch TV and play the Sims.

Excellent. It sounds like a good start.

Ugh. My online crit group has a troll. A very erudite troll that I suspect has a direct line to my own insecurities. And what do I do? Reader, I read his feedback again. Ugh. I need to go rinse out my brain.

Every group has one, ime.