Reflection on Minor Characters

In part sparked by Abhinav Jain’s guest author series on “Names A New Perspective”—which was titled —as well as the recent SF Signal Mind Meld on Heroes, here, I’ve been reflecting on characters and character development lately.

The initial posts on my reflections are here and here.

Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about minor characters, in particular how I take as much care with naming them as I do with the central protagonists. In part that’s because of the pheno...