Yes, I really don't think I could have written this novel if I'd left her name as Thea. In my head, Thea is so much older and more centered and self-aware, and I would have been fighting that perception all the way through the book. Changing the characters' names from that original concept freed me to change their ages and their personalities as well, in a way which the story really needed.
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Date: 2008-02-26 06:56 pm (UTC)