Writing Advice: Names in Fantasy Novels
After taking a one-month hiatus for travel and while I was finishing initial drafts of The Blinding Knife, the Writing Advice Post is back! This month, I am happy to address, in so far as my limited lights are able to illumine, how to come up with names for a fantasy novel. I chat at relative length about aesthetics, culture, history, social and commercial concerns. If you're interested, please click here to see the post.
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The first time I got stuck picking names for my characters, I went out and bought myself a baby names book. (My mother saw that and wanted to know if there was something I wasn't telling her.) I pick names from there, sometimes changing the spelling slightly to make it more exotic if necessary, or just use very old-fashioned names that no-one uses any more but sound fantasy-esque. Works for me.