What's in a name?

Consider your characters' names.

Dare you use something symbolic?

Symbolic names occur so often in real life.

Dirty twitter pics by Rep. Weiner.

Financial rape by Ken Lay.

Bernie Made-off with your money.

Martha Stewart (steward).

Shakespeare used Proteus for a changeable character (2 Gents of V), Malvolio as an ethically challenged Puritan (12th Night), the narrator Rumor (2 Henry 4), and Falstaff as his base alter ego (Fall-staff = Shake-spear, both are moving sticks.)

TK Kenyon
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