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I know how attached I can get to my character names, especially since it usually takes me weeks to come up with them (no exaggeration), but as a reader I also know how little importance character n...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T05:41:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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System
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2019-12-08T05:41:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
I know how attached I can get to my character names, especially since it usually takes me weeks to come up with them (no exaggeration), but as a reader I also know how little importance character names hold for me, and I would have enjoyed the _Lord of the Rings_ equally if it wasn't Frodo and Sam but Fred and Bob getting the Ring to Mount Doom, so what I recommend is being professional about this and chosing another name. Unless, that is, if it is a very common name, and googling it turns up a variety of people, not just this one actor. If you do an image search and all you see is Tom Cruise, then do not use the name Tom Cruise.
#1: Imported from external source
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2016-10-24T15:56:31Z (about 8 years ago)
Original score: 2