Repulsive Barnacle Bored Jellyfish It doesn't sound crazy to me. I don't write unnamed characters and can spend days and many hours getting the right name. It is so ingrained I wonder when people talk about an unnamed character if that is their name. Do I ever change a name? Once it is serialized it would take a monumental problem for me to change it. Before, minor characters, no problem. Major characters,, only once, when I realized I had named a character after the person they were modeled after. That is a story in and of itself.