“This week’s question is Shakespeare asked What’s in a name? But we all know better. So let’s talk about names, specifically our blog’s name. How did you come up with yours?”

I’ve been using ‘dreamfarmer’ for a long time as a label for myself: I came up with it to connote the mixture of hard practicality and fanciful creativity that I felt defined my approach to life. That was before I’d really come to terms with how much pure hard work is involved in writing but that also works. When I decided to make a writing blog, I already had the domain just sitting around gathering dust. It didn’t even occur to me to try to come up with a ‘real’ name…