Wendelyn VegaThe McPhersons hadn’t been expecting a delivery that morning, but their doorbell rang at 7:03 while they were eating breakfast. Blain left his bowl of oatmeal and trudged to the door, fully expecting to give a fake smile to some hapless postal worker or delivery person and sign for a package with as little chit … Read more
I know I haven’t posted anything in a long while. In my defense, I’ve had quite a few changes in my professional life. But one thing I’ve been working on steadily is my first novel, and I’m finally three chapters away from the end of its third and final(ish) draft! I say “ish” because I … Read more
It’s been a long time since I posted anything about my conlangs (I think it’s been almost two years!) but I have still been working on them, and I have some updates on the language I’ve been creating here on the blog. First, I don’t know if I’ve shared it yet, but the language has … Read more
I’m a big fan of character sketches. For mine, I like to flesh out a character’s appearance, personality, and life and then put them into a scenario somewhat atypical of their daily life to see how they react. Then I write that scenario, and I have my sketch. Recently, I stumbled across a few character … Read more
Hi, and Happy Easter and Passover to everyone celebrating this week and weekend! I wanted to write a brief post explaining why I’ll be missing from now (read: like a month ago) until September. I’m working on three major projects this spring and summer: starting an event planning business, getting a linguistics blog up and … Read more
Thinking about word order brings us firmly (probably) into the world of syntax — the study of how phrases, clauses, and sentences are formed. In this post, I’ll examine word order and the types of things to think about when considering the word order of your conlang. Different Options When we talk about word order, … Read more
I love to read. I love to read so much that I have to restrain myself. My tendency to become completely absorbed in a story world has led to rather regrettable withdrawals from my actual life a la “I just finished the Harry Potter series and everything about real life is meaningless give me my … Read more
I’ll be honest: creating vocabulary is my least favorite part of language building. I love the phonetics, phonology, syntax, orthography, symbols, even verb conjugations, but coming up with vocabulary words is always a chore. I tend to rely too heavily on my own native language (English) and the languages I speak a bit or know … Read more
It’s been a while since I wrote about what I’ve been reading, I thought I would do a post about my favorite reads from the month of September. In reality, this will be more of a “favorite reads from this summer” post, because I read some of these before September, but I enjoyed them so … Read more
Syllables are made up of two elements: consonants (C) and vowels (V). These are the elements that we chose in the last post. Syllables can take many different shapes, but phonologically, vowels are always necessary. Common Structures for Syllables: V example: a CV ex: to VC ex: at CCV ex: true CVC ex: cat CVCC … Read more
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