NationStates Jolt Archive

No, not the crime.

"Con" as in construct.

Are there any conworlder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_worlds)/ conlangers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language)/ conculturers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_culture) out there?

I do some of each. Right now I'm working on a case system for a language.

I can speak Klingon?

I can speak Klingon?

Cool. I would like to learn that, but "real" languages take precedence. Once I learn some that can actually help me in life, then I'm going to start learning the ones that are there just for fun: Klingon, D'ni, Quenya, Sindarin, etc.

Cool. I would like to learn that, but "real" languages take precedence. Once I learn some that can actually help me in life, then I'm going to start learning the ones that are there just for fun: Klingon, D'ni, Quenya, Sindarin, etc.

it was fun to learn, my family uses a lot of Klingon phrases.

I am thinking of writing a fantasy novel next which will require a constructed world and culture and language, but I am afraid that I will contradict myself, so I am working on writing a computer program to keep track of everything, the spreadsheets I have used for past novels will not be efficient.

I play Civilization 4, so Conworlds are aplenty with me.
Let alone the ones that exist in my infinite imagination

it was fun to learn, my family uses a lot of Klingon phrases.

I am thinking of writing a fantasy novel next which will require a constructed world and culture and language, but I am afraid that I will contradict myself, so I am working on writing a computer program to keep track of everything, the spreadsheets I have used for past novels will not be efficient.

Really?

I'm doing that, too. The language I'm working on right now is the ancient language of the nymphs. The problem for me is that I want to incorporate all these Biblical allusions and it gets too complicated. That, and I'm so influenced by Tolkien in my thinking about mythology and fantasy that I need to be very careful that I don't just copy everything he said (a trap a lot of fantasy authors fall into).

Really?

I'm doing that, too. The language I'm working on right now is the ancient language of the nymphs. The problem for me is that I want to incorporate all these Biblical allusions and it gets too complicated. That, and I'm so influenced by Tolkien in my thinking about mythology and fantasy that I need to be very careful that I don't just copy everything he said (a trap a lot of fantasy authors fall into).

I really wouldn't worry about forcing the Biblical stuff, just pray a lot and it will flow in your writing. :cool:

I really wouldn't worry about forcing the Biblical stuff, just pray a lot and it will flow in your writing. :cool:

That's what I kkep telling myself. But I get ideas that seem interesting: "I could have 12 nymph races and they could be like the 12 tribes!" But then it gets so complicated and to overbearing. Right now, I'm trying to ballance the number of nymph races with the number of mortal races without making them to numerous.

I play Civilization 4

Never heard of that.

That's what I kkep telling myself. But I get ideas that seem interesting: "I could have 12 nymph races and they could be like the 12 tribes!" But then it gets so complicated and to overbearing. Right now, I'm trying to ballance the number of nymph races with the number of mortal races without making them to numerous.

I wrote a novel about 2 years ago, totally not meaning to add in anything but randomness, and I got signed with a publisher, who then moved me to their sister company that publishes Christian fiction.......weird, it has all these religious undercurrents, I had no idea, I didn't force them in there.

Write the first draft, if you feel the need to add in later you always can.

I wrote a novel about 2 years ago, totally not meaning to add in anything but randomness, and I got signed with a publisher, who then moved me to their sister company that publishes Christian fiction.......weird, it has all these religious undercurrents, I had no idea, I didn't force them in there.

Write the first draft, if you feel the need to add in later you always can.

Hmmm, is it on the shelves?

Hmmm, is it on the shelves?

in August.

in August.

Hmmm, I'll have to watch for it. I didn't realize that being published was such a long process, though I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Hmmm, I'll have to watch for it. I didn't realize that being published was such a long process, though I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

it took me 3 months to write the book, and 5 months to edit it, I was lucky that it worked out so quickly and that I was picked up by the publisher that I tried first.

Since then it seems like there has been endless amounts of manuscripts and drafts floating back and forth between me and the publisher, editing, tweaking, adding, subtracting......bleh.

I am going through it with 2 books at the same time, so it's even more bleh.