On naming characters...

A mild rant.

In a recent post, I said there were no real rules for naming characters. That was an old post, and I put a contemporary note in saying that this was not true and that I'd come back to it.

Well, here we are; I'm back.

This post may feel like a bit of a rant. If it does, it's because it comes about partly in response to some middle-aged-white-guy-whining th…