Time to pay for DW again O_O

With the note that kc_obrien still needs to ask me for a story for last year!!

Dreamwidth doesn't take Paypal, and it's time to pay for my account again. Outside of my normal Giraffe Call hours, I will write 125 words/dollar within the next month, on the subject of your choice (comfort-level caveats apply) for anyone who puts paid time on my DW account.

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Draconic – or this really isn't how you should do a fantasy language - A Guest Post

becka_sutton is a fellow webserial author and friend. She has a new book out, Land of Myth, the first book in her Dragon Wars saga.

We share an interest in constructed languages, and today she is going to tell us about Draconic, a language from Dragon Wars.

Draconic – or this really isn't how you should do a fantasy language (not even one that's just for naming)

When I started writing The Dragon Wars Saga I had to do some world-building. It was interesting because while I'm not the first (and won't be the last) writer to create a fantastical rather than hard fantasy world there was precious little advice on the web about how to do the former. I really had to go it alone. One of my previous guest blogs over at Feral Intensity discusses this.

I also needed a naming language – Draconic, which is the formal language of the Dragons in the series. I really didn't have the faintest about conlanging and I kind of just winged it. This probably wasn't the best idea, but there you go.
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