: Re: Way to write an unnamed character? Someone I'm proofreading for has a protagonist that, for whatever reason, has a blanked out name. She writes it as '_____' which I feel disrupts the flow

@Cooney417

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Two that I know of:

1.) Make her a first person narrator whom no other character addresses by name. Haruki Murakami does this in Pinball, 1973

2.) Give the protagonist an ambiguous nickname, such as The X where X is something meaningful.

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