My main character's name changed halfway through my draft

Honestly, I was about 15,000 words into a story set in Portland when I realized my lead, a guy I'd called 'Leo', just didn't fit. It felt wrong every time I typed it. I went back and used the find-and-replace tool to swap every 'Leo' for 'Evan', and the whole thing clicked into place. Has anyone else had a character's name just stop working on you?

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the_kevin1d ago

Ugh, my characters do that to me all the time.

barbara4291d ago

So you just hit find and replace and it was fine? I'd be terrified of missing one and having a weird Leo/Evan hybrid haunting the final draft. Did you have to reread the whole thing super carefully to catch any slip-ups, or did the swap actually go clean?