Names define the way we see the world. Yes, they do seem like a piece of random information, something hard to remember for many of us now that our phones and the internet have come into the picture. However, without names, we’d have a hard time remembering a lot of things.
Names of people are often based on religion, region, ancestral profession, caste, clans and so on. Names of places are also regional, ending with tags like Pur, Nagar, Puram, Lore in different parts of India, and Ville, Field, Ham in different parts of the western world. Names for the same thing might change every few kilometers based on its origins, its migration and a lot more. For the same reason, things in far away places might have the same name.
However, when it comes to fiction, you don’t have these preexisting factors to facilitate the nomenclature. You might be thinking that hold on, This isn’t real life, right? Just make up the names with whatever you like.
And that, my friend, is where the problems of naming start. To know how to solve it, listen to the latest episode of my podcast Read Write Insight on the topic.
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Arnab Mukherjee 