It's a fairly random process, really. I want my character names to have the feel of recognizable human names, even if names from most human languages don't really work in the context where I tend to write fic. Sometimes I do use names from a culture that seems to fit; for my
Since I tend to write in established universes, I almost never need to invent place names, which is good, because I think that would be a lot more difficult.
30 Days of Writing: Complete list of questions
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