Naming things is the bane of my existence. Fantasy always involves unbelievable amounts of naming, and it always bugs me. Sometimes the names just don't work, but I can't sit and ponder on the name of village innkeeper #4 for days at a time. Sometimes I have to go ahead and just use whatever I can think of, and I can ctrl+f replace it later. (That is a great function.)
But some things are worth stopping to think about. My newest novel, an extract of which I'll be submitting as a college assignment, now has a name! 'Aspect'. The name is central to the story, short, and hopefully catchy. It seems to have some weight to it. It's the kind of simple thing I was looking for.
Aspect's mythology is developing in my head now, and I'll get more into that soon, but I'm really looking forward to writing it. Rather than my usual emphasis on first-draft speed, that I sort of inherited from NaNoWriMo, I'll be taking it slow, editing as I go, and see how that turns out for me. Hopefully the mythology will develop more fully earlier on in the book, because looking back at Songlord and Kosmos, there's a lot to change in the opening chapters.
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