Don't Follow My Lead

I have always wondered how do writers name their characters.   But I think that it has to do with another question.  Are writers really creating the story? or telling the story?

And I think that, that subtle difference is what is so amazing about people that write for a living.   When you are creating a story, it just feels so hard (at least to me) because I feel like it’s so difficult, like the charachters are just looking at you and judging you.   I’m being judge by my own characters, and they are looking back at me with disappointment.

That’s the part then, that makes me believe that is about telling the story, and not force it out of yourself, if is a true story.    When I was telling the story in my previous post about Premise Vs Story.   The names Matt and Jon, I didn’t create them, this characters, this son with an ailing father, and this childhood friend told  me their names.  It was a revelation for me, because I have always fought, what to name him, always wondered.  But on Wednesday, when I was just letting the words come to me, his name also came.

This has now let me to believe, that the whole story is there, in my head, buried among all the crap my brain has gathered.   Now the time has come to see if I can tell you a story, and if you want to listen to it.