[The Bachelor]

Let's say, for the sake of argument, i'm writing about authors whose names I don't know, and I want to use placeholders to hold their place in the text for now. For example:


So that, when {author10} says something, {author9} does something else...



I want to do it without the usual find-replaceall method because there are too many problems that might come with that.

Is there a way to use some sort of latex command to act like a placeholder? My ideal sense is something like this:


author10 = "blah blah"

So that, when {author10} says something, {author9} does something else...


and then i could replace "blah blah" with the real name once i found out what it actually was. Any such latex command?

[ukgea]

\newcommand{\author9}{John Doe}

...

So when \author9 says something...

[The Bachelor]

Thanks.