Use Of Names: Worldbuilding, Part 2

Last week as an important aspect of worldbuilding in The Wall of Night series.

This week, I am again exploring the contribution of names to worldbuilding, this time in the context of Thornspell.

Thornspell is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the prince and the story began for me in one of those classic creative ‘flashpoint’ moments that simultaneously revealed the story arc and the essential character of the world. I was at a performance of th...