"The beginning of wisdom is the ability to call things by their right names. " - Confucius. As a writer, I've always been fascinated with names. How people get their names, what they mean, whether they like them or not. When I was twelve, I bought a baby name book and spent hours poring through the various sections trying to decide on names for characters in short stories I was working on. Is this florist more of a Veronica or a Jane? What signal would it give the reader that the main charact...
