How to Name Things in Your Setting

Lawrence E. Grabowski
Cultivating Wonder
Published in
3 min readAug 30, 2020

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You don’t have to be Tolkien to have interesting, consistent names.

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I hate naming things. I loathe it. If I cannot make the name a pun or funny reference, I will struggle. As I must sometimes have serious names, I’ve been forced to find ways to work around my tendency towards whimsy.

How do you name physical locations?

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Lawrence E. Grabowski
Cultivating Wonder

Kung Fu Nerd, Gamer, Writer. I write about setting, plot, and characters as well as teach Spanish. I also dabble in writing about other things.