What’s in a Name?

A few days ago Iwas rambling about changing the name of a character, and I’m back this morning to confess that I’mstill stuck in the same place I was. I’ve tried at least 30 different name for the heroine of this story and I’ve rejected probably 200 more, and I still can’t find her. The trouble is, I’ve written just as far as I can write thinking of her by a name that doesn’t work.

The hardest part of writing any book (to me) is digging deep enough into the characters’ psyches to truly unders...