What Is A Good Name For Myfiction Series

What is a good way of coming up with names for fictional places?

Depends on the kind of place. If you're coming up with a name for a small whitebread town, topographical words (acres, river, hills, dale, valley, etc) sound good when paired up with adjectives at the beginning (new, old, west, north, blue). This can give the town a bit of a retirement community vibe if you're not careful, but another good method is going onto Google and looking up lists of surnames. I often have luck with English and German surnames. For bigger cities, what I like to do is come up with words that describe the city, then go to Google translate and try putting the words into different languages. Latin, French, and German are my favorites but you can certainly experiment. The surnames method can also work for this. For fictional countries you want something that sounds more exotic. These can be the hardest names to come up with, as there's really no exact formula for it. Try just listening to conversations and picking out random syllables here and there, then putting them together in a way that sounds nice to you. Make a list of these random nonsense words, try combining them or switching around letters and syllables. Make anagrams, add on endings like "-ia" or "-istan." It's going to take a lot of trial and error before you hit something that sounds right, so don't get discouraged!

What are some good names for a fictional high school?

A lot of high schools in real life seem to have "wood" or the names of trees in their names--at least, they do around here. Pineview, Redwood, Woodside, and my own Alma Mater, Oakmont, for instance.You can also name them after famous people in history, such as presidents or explorers, or the person who founded that school or discovered the region. Although since there are only a few famous people you can choose from, really, there's a good chance of using a real school's name if you go that route.If it's a religious school, naming it after a saint is always a good way to go, but once again, with a limited pool of saints to choose from, chances are high that the name is in use.And finally, you can always fall back on naming it after the city or region the school is located in. Not as original, but still feasible; no one will fault you if you decide to use this option. Of course, there are plenty more options, depending on the genre of fiction you're going for. Is this just a normal high school in a normal universe, attended by normal kids? Or is this a high school attended by, say... vampires? Or superheroes? Or ghosts? Is it a high school IN SPAaAaAaAaACE?? If that's the case, the sky's the limit, really.

What are the best science fiction television series?

Having never watched more than a few minutes of Fringe, I can't give you any direct comparisons... but if you're looking for some more intelligent and detail-oriented with solid stories, outstanding characters, and the occasional point to make, then it's hard to beat Babylon 5.  Don't think of B5 as sci-fi... but more like a drama that just happens to be set on a space station. It was conceived from the beginning as a 5-year story, with its universe plotted out a million years into the past and the future. That helps make for very coherent story arcs, and greatly helped it survive a number of cast changes... because if you write a story based on specific characters, the unexpected loss of a character can throw things into disarray... but if you write a story based on ideas, and you already know where you want your WHOLE UNIVERSE to end up, rather than just your leads, you can adapt new characters to fit and make things work.  And sometimes it even turns out better than it might have been otherwise.That pre-design also made for some of the best time-travel episodes ever done on TV, where the shifting time frames are a PART of the story, rather than just a plot device... and the past, present and future all fit together smartly.As for other shows, maybe take a look at Earth 2, and the original Star Trek (still stands up well today).

How do I find a fitting name for my fictional character?

When I am creating a cast of characters, I like to make sure the name fits with their genealogy. For example, an all Italian family isn't likely to have a Russian name for their child, or a Spanish name. Also, names that end with an S, can be problematic, especially if you aren't sure where to put apostrophes. If your cast of characters have similar letters or sounds in their name, you will mix them up, and so will your readers. For example: Micheal, Mitchell, Michelle, Danielle, etc. or Aidan, Adam, Adrian, Alan, Alec, Alex. I find it best to stick with classic names, that have been around for hundreds, (sometimes thousands) of years, whenever possible. Biblical names are usually safe, no matter what time frame your book is written in. You can easily do a search for most popular name by decade, to make sure the name you choose fits your characters age. For example, if you have a 80 year old in your story, names like: Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret, Ruth, Mildred, Anne, Elizabeth, Virginia, Evelyn, Frances, Alice, Lillian, Rose or John, William, James, Robert, George, Edward, Frank, Thomas, Walter, Harold, Charles, Paul, Richard and Henry would be appropriate. I find that if I am giving my character a long surname, it seems to fit better to give them a shorter first name. Or, if their first name is longer, I try to give them a shorter last name. For example, Genevieve Hart or Ian O'Callaghan.

What are the best historical fiction books you have ever read?

The best, ever, IMHO, are The First Man in Rome and The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough. These two epic books tell the stories of Gaius Marius and L. Cornelius Sulla, two pivotal figures in the fall of the Roman Republic.What I loved best about the books was how McCullough brought to life the things the Roman took for granted. Their beliefs and their reasons for believing them are so very human it's impossible not to believe along with them, at least for the course of the novels. My favorite example of this is when two peripheral characters are strolling along together and one casually cries, “Good Amor!” Now, I know enough Latin to know this means something like Good Love and took it for a typical blessing, like when we say Good God. But in the second book it is revealed that many people believed Amor was the Secret Name of Rome, because Amor spelled backwards is Roma. Further, people believed that uttering that word aloud (in some context other than a discussion of love) would lead to the fall of the Republic or even the city itself. So here we have these two pillars of the establishment strolling along plotting a marital alignment and one of them casually utters a curse that should have brought the city crashing down around their ears. The other doesn't even shrug it off, just responds to the gist of the statement! Obviously people love to say outrageous things, then as now.Along these lines, these books (and the five sequels, which are good but not nearly as good as these first two) show omens again and again that suggest the fall of the Roman Republic. It's impossible not to get into the spirit of the thing and I found myself tracking all of these icons of superstition, saying to myself, yep, if they only knew! (For what it's worth, Romans of that era were well aware that in pursuing the Third Punic War Rome had broken faith with her gods and they believed Rome was experiencing the effects of a curse. Specifically, a curse that drove her citizens to become avaricious to the point of self-destruction.)If you like this sort of thing at all, please, do yourself a favor and read these books! McCullough's scholarship is strong and her narrative power is mind-blowing. You will find yourself swept away and, if you're like me, you will be driven to read the source material, eg, Polybius and Plutarch, as well as reading these titles over and over again.