November 2019
Entries
2019-11-27 World-Building - Tent Pole Development - For this week's world-building post, I want to talk about tent poles. In this case, I'm not talking about the ones under a circus tent but ways of exploring the world through fiction and documentation (writing dictionary or encyclopedia entries).
2019-11-20 World-Building - Magic and Trauma - Last week, I wrote a short story called I Will Hurt You Only Once. This is a story about Gichyòbi telling his young daughter about the rite of passage into adulthood such as Rutejìmo's in Sand and Blood. Both of these are about how trauma affects magic in the world of Fedran.
2019-11-13 World-Building - Creating Hissian - So, with me writing Looking for The Wrong Thing, I realized I need to start working on the constructed language Hissian, the language spoken by the United Hidanork Tribes in the creatively named country of Hidanork.
2019-11-12 ICON 44 Retrospective - Two weeks ago, I went to ICON for four days of fun and a lot of panels. Here are my thoughts and a few observations.
2019-11-06 World-Building - Iterative Development - One of the first questions asked at world-building panels is "how to get started?". Starting is scary when trying to build a world intended to be used for decades as opposed to a (relatively) smaller world for only a short story or two.
2019-11-01 October Fiction - So, I was gently pinged on my Patreon that I don't do a lot of status updates. I appreciate the reminders, so I'm going to try writing up a monthly post of everything I serialize on my fantasy website.