Category: Background and “Meta” Information
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A brief introduction to the prompts
My goal is to bring you daily prompts that will focus your creative time and energy on one (more) specific area per day to make conlanging more approachable and less overwhelming, whether this is your first conlang project or your twentieth. Every day, I will post a new prompt for an activity to complete. If…
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My “rules” of conlanging
Before we get to the start of Conlang Year, I want to share some rules I’ve put together for conlangers of all ages and stages. Conlang Rules (heck, yeah, it does!) No language is perfect or complete. All languages have idiosyncrasies and quirks. All languages have irregularities. And all living languages continuously grow and change…
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Exploring language since ’89
When WordPress prompted me for a tagline for my website as I was editing the footer, the first thing that popped into my head was “exploring language since ’89.” Why ’89? Because that was the first year I remember actually meeting and speaking with someone who spoke Spanish. That isn’t to say it was the…
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About me, the detailed version
I am a creative soul whose happy place is working on a creative project. The types of projects I enjoy are diverse and include cooking and baking (two related, yet very different endeavors), crocheting (knitting has taken a bit of a backseat to crocheting at the moment), making collages (especially as I explore using digital…