What Was Your Name Again?

This is what I found myself saying to my characters after a pause from consistent writing. I named and renamed those whose names just hadn’t been sitting well with me. In getting to know them again, I got to know them better. I found out a little more about them each time I revisited my work in progress. Until I knew them clearly, I kept working on them, drawing them out, asking more questions of them. But they, like real, live people will always contain a little mystery, and that’s okay.