
146. Beers With the Author
At The Table with Patrick Lencioni
How Do You Name Your Characters?
"I come up with them out of thin air, or i think about people i know," she says. "It's not very systematic, so you don't have a baby named book looking up definitions of names" She adds that writing fiction is more work than non-fiction because the characters need to make sense and dialogue fit together. The name jamie comes from an old friend who was also called jamie.
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