My Struggle with Sci-Fi Names and Naming Conventions

Since I wrote the first draft of Artifact of the Dawn back in 2015, the biggest struggle I’ve had is with names and a consistent naming convention for my characters and place names. The place names have been the hardest and I’ve changed them a dozen times already. Part of my problem is that I keep overthinking them and have tried to give the place names translatable meanings.

I am finally letting go of the need to have all the names have meanings. I’ve found it leads to awkward names that ar...