Sunday, January 8, 2012

Cool city names for setting of my book?

Well, I have a couple suggestions for you. Some cool and clever ways to come up with names for things, such as people names and country names, in stories are to use anagrams, that is rearranging a word or phrase into one word which you can use to mask a term, in which you are making slight references to. For example, if you wanted to name a street in a 'rich country' the street could be 'Chicory Turn' which is an anagram for the previously quoted thing. Heres a link to an online anagram generator if you want to use that <>.http://wordsmith.org/anagram/>. You can also make subtle hints by using an online translator an translating a word that has a likeness to the type of thing you are naming, say its a wasteland, and translate, say the word 'destroyed' into some obscure language like icelandic or polish. For the particular case, because you want it to be futuristic and not fantasy type, you should probably name the city something ironic, because it was intended to be rich, but just turned out to be corrupt. You could make it a 'nuke town' type name, like 'Happyville', or like 'Sanctum 5'. Or something generic like Skytion City. Blah blah blah, I hope that helped, even though I wasn't really definative.

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