Forum: Writers


Subject: On Deriving Place Names

jstro opened this issue on Jan 13, 2004 ยท 9 posts


ynsaen posted Thu, 15 January 2004 at 5:11 AM

Worthy tutorial, btw. (pardon the inevitable self-focus) My own method is quite similar. But then, much like my names, I tend to change the spelling to go with the sound so that it makes you think just a bit... I have a little message at the top of about half of my notebooks: Familiar yet strange. Make it familiar to the reader, but play with it a bit. sorta my philosophy on things, I guess. lol

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)