Someone asked me that question in an interview recently, and it got me thinking about the whole process and how various characters came into their names. I couldn’t go into all the details in the interview, so I thought it would be fun to post about it. Names to me represent personalities. They’re important. Naming Main vs. Side Characters I’m very particular about my main characters’ names because I’ll be living with them for quite a while (especially in a series). It’s important to me that my main characters have distinctive names, but not necessarily weird names. I tend toward […]