Trouble juggling your subplots? Finding yourself creating a character's mother that too closely resembles, uh, yours? Deadline looming and you're only on chapter three? Here's a forum for novelists and short-story writers.
"You could have a section of the story where you explain the character name.
For example: in my stories I have a character whose name is Gill. She is a girl and her name is pronounced Jill short for Jillian (Gillian). In the beginning of the current…"