Worldbuilding
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12 Tips for Lexember
December is an exciting time of year for me, as it’s time for Lexember. I think there is some other important event that happens during December, but I can’t quite remember what it is. Anyway, Lexember is a social-media conlanging-based challenge which started on Twitter in 2012 and was created…
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The Worldbuilding of the SCP Foundation
The SCP foundation is a massive online collaborative writing project centred around a secret organisation that tracks and contains supernatural entities, objects, and other phenomena which are collectively known as anomalies. As it is set in a horror-based science-fantasy universe, it showcases many examples of interesting worldbuilding. However, to maintain…
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How to Create Elements for Worldbuilding
The concept of the elements has existed since ancient times and has been used in countless works of fiction. It is an idea that attempts to explain the complex world in terms of simpler components. In this post, first I will take a look at some element systems from real-life cultures, then…
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An In-Depth Guide to Creating a Phonology – Part 4: Tones and Pitch Accent
In the previous part, I explained the various different types of suprasegmentals that you could include in your conlang. However, I intentionally left out pitch accent and tone because I wanted to talk about them more in-depth. A lot of people see tone as a difficult concept to grasp, but…
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An In-Depth Guide to Creating a Phonology – Part 1: Consonants
I’ve decided to open this blog with a tutorial on how to construct an artificial language (also called a conlang). I’ve been creating conlangs for several years now, and I feel that I have a lot of advice to share. This will be the first in a series of articles…
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