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Q&A How to introduce a fake name or alias for the sake of making a story clearer

I'm writing a scenario that describes what one person did when he worked for a company and want to use proper names for readability, but not use the real names of the people or company. But my phra...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Caveatrob‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T05:04:43Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/21077
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Caveatrob‭ · 2019-12-08T05:04:43Z (almost 5 years ago)
I'm writing a scenario that describes what one person did when he worked for a company and want to use proper names for readability, but not use the real names of the people or company. But my phrasing keeps coming off as awkward. What's a clearer way to do this?

Example 1:

> My friend "Chuck" who worked for a vendor "ThisCo" decided he'd had enough.

Example 2:

> My friend (I'll call him "Chuck") worked for a vendor (I'll call it "ThisCo") decided he'd had enough.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-02-23T17:12:00Z (over 8 years ago)
Original score: 6