Five things to consider when naming characters

While your real-life name is something you inherit and have to live into, up to, or out of, a fictional character's name is a tool for its creator to communicate something about the person. Juliet's contention that "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" has not been borne out by the
Naming characters is one of my great joys as a writer. Finding the right name can happen almost instinctively, though I enj...