ARE YOU KIDDING ME. I haven’t picked up the cards for years and this is what I get. Those of you who know tarot will understand my reluctance to look too closely at this reading. Ugh.
the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise – what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that
Tolkien had the time apparently
LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
apparently the key to happiness is to have a long and shitty winter
and if you can’t have that, surround yourself with deadly wildlife
or maybe these countries have free or reasonably priced health care, good education and costs nothing or very little, marriage equality(not all do however on the list but they at least aren’t extremely homophobic either), decent minimum wages, stable economies, low crime rates and so forth and also deadly wildlife because we protect our environment
Daughters of the horse-leech, thy tempest out-thunders me.
source: Israel Zangwill, Without Prejudice, 1899. This description, at the time meant to be as absurd a set of charges and demands as could be placed in a straw woman’s mouth, today reads like a beautiful manifesto.
Didn’t quite hit 50,000 words, but I don’t care – I finished the story, and that’s the important thing, and rewrites and editing will probably bump it up a lot anyway.
To celebrate I’mma tell you what it actually is – rather than a ‘novel’, I’ve actually been working on what I hope to turn into a fiction-radio-play-sorta-thing podcast. It has no title at present. It’s told via voicemails because I like found article-y fiction a lot. It’s about a couple of queer boys who fall in love, open a bar, and also have magic powers that they use to protect queer folks from bigotry. Gay witch boyfriends and their voicemails, basically.
YAY.
… now I have to edit and fix all the stuff that needs fixing :(((((
Verylisa 