Mindfire
Istar
Has this ever happened to you? You spend hours- nay, days, ruminating on an original concept for your WIP and thinking up a name for it. Once you finally happen upon one that fits, you do a cursory google search and discover, to your dismay, that the name is already being used for something completely different. -_-
That's what just happened to me. I'm wondering if I should use the name anyway, or choose something different, which is going to be difficult because I've already gone through a dozen names.
Now in situations where you want to avoid getting your book mixed up with someone else's, mis-association with a popular franchise, or copyright infringement, changing your name is probably a good idea I admit. However, I doubt that anyone will get my soulfire, a magic system I came up with*, mixed up with Soulfire the fairly obscure (I'd never heard of it before now) comic book about fairies and cyborgs in the distant future.
Should I keep the name or change it? What's a general rule for these situations?
*In very crude terms, it's a kind of religious/spiritual pyromancy.
That's what just happened to me. I'm wondering if I should use the name anyway, or choose something different, which is going to be difficult because I've already gone through a dozen names.
Now in situations where you want to avoid getting your book mixed up with someone else's, mis-association with a popular franchise, or copyright infringement, changing your name is probably a good idea I admit. However, I doubt that anyone will get my soulfire, a magic system I came up with*, mixed up with Soulfire the fairly obscure (I'd never heard of it before now) comic book about fairies and cyborgs in the distant future.
Should I keep the name or change it? What's a general rule for these situations?
*In very crude terms, it's a kind of religious/spiritual pyromancy.
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