I haven't done much work on it for over a year now, but Celenesti came back on my radar twice this week. First another slakkon asked me about my own conlang experience, and then I committed to finishing my Xanadu story, and in the course of it had to come up with a line of Esti dialogue ( Read more... )

As part of my effort to learn Trigedasleng, I just wrote an entire story in it. Admittedly a short and not very good one. I think I'm really starting to get fluent. I was surprised at how much I didn't have to refer to the dictionary. I put it in an HTML table because it was the only way in Livejournal to preserve the English translation in ( Read more... )

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Awhile back I had a somewhat whimsical idea for a Star Wars portal fantasy. I have no real intention of pursuing this particular plotbunny, but during a couple slow days at work I wrote out a bit of it in a notepad. Just part of one random scene. Today I finally transcribed it onto my computer.

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I've decided to start posting my stories here as well as at Shifti, starting with this one. I just finished Act One (of three).

This story is one of my contributions to the Paradise shared universe. Some things might not be clear to people not already familiar with the setting, but I generally believe that readers can follow things without a lot ( Read more... )

This will be sort of a muddled mix of a post, in which only tangentially-related things are bridged together by the chain of my thought processes rather than anything more substantial.

I was inspired to reread "The Dragon Lady of Macross" last week, after getting the latest Robotech Tactics kickstarter update. I've alluded to it a couple times ( Read more... )

My transhuman mermaid story "Future Tails" has had 110 page visits since I put it online on February 21. Now, I can account for at least a dozen of them, maybe twice that many, with my mania for editing and tweaking. And I've given the URL to two of my friends and asked them to critique it, and at least one them did. But that still leaves nearly a ( Read more... )