How do you come up with fictional location names?
How do you come up with fictional location names?
Here are a few ways you can try:
- Pick up books you’ve never heard of and skim through until you find words you’ve never heard of.
- Combine author’s last names.
- Read wikipedia about the history of a nearby place and switch up the letters a bit (Spoonerisms make for great fun).
- Pretend to invent a language.
Can you use real place names in fiction?
Towns/City Names: You can use the names of real towns and cities without any problems. I tend to use real large cities and make up the names of smaller towns. It’s easier to “create” a town to your story’s specifications and needs. You can take liberties with real places by making up the names of streets or businesses.
Can fictional places be copyrighted?
A fictional character, similar to a graphic character, cannot obtain trademark protection for its own protection, but may only be protected when the trademark indicates a particular source of goods and services.
How do you describe a place in fiction?
Describe place through characters’ senses. Include time period in description. Show how characters feel about your setting. Keep setting description relevant to the story.
What makes a good fictional place name?
I believe that a good fictional place name needs to be realistic, but not so realistic that people mistake you for a real place on this earth, it is this balance that has been captured in this name generator and I hope it serves you well. To get started generating place names, just scroll down to the generator button and start reeling off names.
Where do fictional locations come from?
While a majority of these fictional locations have deep mythological roots, a few of them come from the minds of creative geniuses that took aspects of our real world and different mythologies in order to create something that’s relatively original.
How do I get started generating place names?
To get started generating place names, just scroll down to the generator button and start reeling off names. When you find one you like, put it in your favorite names list to keep track of it for later. Now of course, if you are looking for real place names, I have not created a name generator for that yet as I think most…
How to write a good fictional landscape?
Use real world examples for your fictional ones to help get the creativity flowing. This can really help with natural territories. Rocky Mountains, Great Barrier Reef, Grand Canyon, and other locations in our world are fairly simplistic. You would be surprised how many places can be named by how they look.
