on the naming of things in my head
I have long said that I've wanted to have worlds in my head, worlds I can write about. Things that I can feel compelled to write about. I like to create, I like to draw, to write, to paint, but as much as I've done it I don't seem to have a fire under me to do it. I don't have to do it, in other words.
Over the past few days, though, I have noticed that names have been popping into my head, seemingly at random and with little or no provocation. I was playing a game recently, not thinking of anything in particular. Indeed, I was in a sort of gaming satori, or Zen state of no-mind. Suddenly pouf the name Graeme Tenderlarch appears. This name does not appear in anything I'm playing, anything I've seen or anything I'm reading at the moment. I can't remember the other names that have occurred to me, or when, but I do know -- this is not the first time.
There doesn't seem to be anything behind the names. Their personality, if indeed they have one, does not pop into my head, fully-formed and Athena-like.
So what I'd like to know is -- is this this significant in some way? Names themselves are very important to me; naming is often the hardest part of any role-playing or character generation I do. Perhaps I should make note of these names, see if further elements come to me. Meditate on them, even.
I feel so woefully unprepared for this sort of thing.
Over the past few days, though, I have noticed that names have been popping into my head, seemingly at random and with little or no provocation. I was playing a game recently, not thinking of anything in particular. Indeed, I was in a sort of gaming satori, or Zen state of no-mind. Suddenly pouf the name Graeme Tenderlarch appears. This name does not appear in anything I'm playing, anything I've seen or anything I'm reading at the moment. I can't remember the other names that have occurred to me, or when, but I do know -- this is not the first time.
There doesn't seem to be anything behind the names. Their personality, if indeed they have one, does not pop into my head, fully-formed and Athena-like.
So what I'd like to know is -- is this this significant in some way? Names themselves are very important to me; naming is often the hardest part of any role-playing or character generation I do. Perhaps I should make note of these names, see if further elements come to me. Meditate on them, even.
I feel so woefully unprepared for this sort of thing.