Who Cares that Evil Twins are Cliche!

Ever since I "finished" (or at least declared I was no longer writing) THE THING (also known as Adeline's novelish type story), I have had a rather perplexing and annoying dilemma.

What the hell am I going to name my heroine?

It might seem rather obvious that her name is Adeline Montague. After all, I got my start with Adeline, her voice is the one that narrates the darned thing, and … well … damn it, that's what I've got written down!

But, (as everything else in my life is) it's more complex than that.

Adeline Montague is really a young girl that appeared on a fan fiction loop a couple of years ago. She wrote about pranks, her boss Scot, and the mischief she got into with her friends. Due to time constraints, she disappeared from that loop and emerged on another one. There she made the transition from Squire to being the descendant of a god. She's made a lot of friends along the way, written some silly (and not so silly) stories, and had a lot of varying experiences as other characters have come in and out of her life. So how can I just pretend all those don't exist?

I can't really, but since some of what I've written previously on the loop is in direct opposition to what I wrote in my THING …. how do I reconcile the two? The easy way is to pretend that my writing on the loops doesn't exist (but ack! I've already acknowledged it here – the place I hope will some day be my official blog … oh woe is me *winks*).

As you might have figured out by the irreverent comments, I'm not real fond of that route. See, I know how people are; I figure eventually someone's going to find all that and poke at me. Besides, I'm proud of what I wrote, and the people I wrote it with. There are a lot of talented writers I've had the privilege to plot with. I want other people to see their stuff (so that I'll have allies in my poking at these people *grins*).

Which means that I have two other options: I can acknowledge Adeline's stuff and credit it to my misspent and misguided youth before I truly understood my character (*makes the yeck face*) or I can rename Adeline …..

Hmmmm …. you know, I see a not-so evil "twin" named Adelaide in Adeline's very near future. Any thoughts or comments?