Introduction: What's in a name? If you've ever written, or even considered writing, a story set in another place or time, you've likely run into the problem of names. Everything needs one. Everybody needs one. But they're not easy. Coming up with the right names is one of the hallmarks of a great author. Good names fit the setting, helping a reader suspend disbelief and giving the impression that this created world is, in fact, real. In addition, they can set the atmosphere, drawing on the shared culture we already know to predispose us to see a person or place in a specific light. The humble Shire, for instance, sounds like a nice place to live. Winterfell is very obviously somewhere that gets pretty cold. Death Mountain? Nope, wouldn't want to go there at all.
Thus it is named
Thus it is named
Thus it is named
Introduction: What's in a name? If you've ever written, or even considered writing, a story set in another place or time, you've likely run into the problem of names. Everything needs one. Everybody needs one. But they're not easy. Coming up with the right names is one of the hallmarks of a great author. Good names fit the setting, helping a reader suspend disbelief and giving the impression that this created world is, in fact, real. In addition, they can set the atmosphere, drawing on the shared culture we already know to predispose us to see a person or place in a specific light. The humble Shire, for instance, sounds like a nice place to live. Winterfell is very obviously somewhere that gets pretty cold. Death Mountain? Nope, wouldn't want to go there at all.