From: bobthrollop@gmail.com   
      
   My latest story is coming along in fits and starts.  I've noticed myself doing   
   something that I fear might look terribly amateurish in the finished work.    
   Half of the time I refer to my heroine by her name, Eleanor, and the other   
   half of the time I call    
   her Ellie, according to the mood of the paragraph.  It bothers me to use one   
   name when I think the other fits better.   
      
   I can't think of another written work in which the narrative voice doesn't   
   settle on one of a character's possible names and stick with it.  Does anyone   
   see any possible chance that this tactic will work, or is it just going to   
   look dumb when it's all    
   done?   
      
   I don't think reader confusion is an issue here, as there are very few named   
   characters and none with a name at all similar.   
      
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