I don't write fantasy so I don't have to come up with unusual names, but when I write, it's lately been about a place called Santa Clarissa, which is, in my mind, some place between Santa Barbara and San Diego. I wanted a real sounding place so I didn't distract from the stories that I set there that have a supernatural theme behind the reality base, but I wanted more flexibility in building my city than a real place would give. Not that it matters since none of these stories will be published, but it seemed important at the time. And because I dawdled, someone else has published mystery stories set there (though her Santa Clarissa is more north and near wine country than mine). What I don't like are too many incomprehensible names and place names in the same story. If you want me to keep track, take pity on an aging mind. I won't read beyond: "Myxty paused on the itkwdy banks of Rvl't River to look at the vivotran wagons slowly rolling down J'Ntlyplez Road to Ovrbblywrut 'taen." My brain gets tired just thinking of it.