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I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.
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So here’s a question: why are animals called what they are? I’m not talking about the big categorical names– things like ‘dog’ and ‘cat’ and ‘horse’ go back for hundreds of years, according to etymology. But when you want to get more specific than that, things get a little wonky. Let’s talk fossils and dinosaurs:…
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How do you refer to the island nation in the Pacific Ocean, roughly around 41* S, 175* E?
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I’ve been doing a lot of pondering about names. How they change, how they represent us, where they come from and why. Cyanide and Happiness has a great comic titled The Life Stages of Roberts, about how a single name carries completely different associations and how that can change throughout a person’s life. People in…
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It’s been a long time since the wonderful podcast 60 Second Saga was discontinued, but I only recently realized that I never had the chance to post my second submission: here’s a beautiful rendition of my short story, Between the Particles.
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What better time for a fresh start than the beginning of a brand new year?
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Before, any attempt at femininity felt like a miserable impersonation of the woman I couldn’t actually be. As I am, there’s no more pretending. The clothes I wear aren’t a disguise, but just the things I wear when I feel like it.
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I’ve talked a little bit about the research that goes into writing fantasy stories. Even if the world you’re writing in is not at all the one we live in, I tend to think it’s safe to pull at least a little bit from our world’s history. Would people with this technology level in that…
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Even when you’re writing fiction, there’s a whole lot of research involved, and a simple question can send you down into some really weird places.
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Okay, so now you have your list of words in an invented language. Now what? How do you actually go about naming stuff?
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