Tag: conlang year
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Day 4: January 4, 2024
Goal: Describe (or design) your speakers Note: Focus on your speakers’ physical bodies—what they look like, how they move about, etc. Tip: Having a clear image in your mind (or having an actual picture) will help you moving forward. Work focus: Create/Make/List Yesterday you identified who your speakers will be. Today the goal is to…
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Day 3: January 3, 2024
Goal: Determine your speakers and conworld Note: You will have five days to describe these in more detail. Focus on the big picture for today. Tip: Start a “vision board” or collection of images that can inspire you as you fill out details. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Now that you have set intentions for creating a…
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Day 2: January 2, 2024
Goal: Set an intention for sharing your language Note: Focus on your intended audience (e.g. family, friends, a linguistics professor, young adult readers across the country) and medium (e.g. written text, video recordings, lyrics in songs) for sharing your work with others. Tip: If this is a personal project, your intended audience may be limited…
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Day 1: January 1, 2024
Goal: Set an intention for your language Note: Focus on your reasons for wanting to create this language. This will be your guiding force throughout the year. Tip: Write your goal in a place where you can see it and refer to it often as you work on your language. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure All too…
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Week 1: A preview
This post provides a rundown of the prompts you’ll see this week, so you can plan ahead. On each day, I’ll post more information to accompany each prompt. Day 1, January 1 Goal: Set an intention for your language Note: Focus on your reasons for wanting to create this language. This will be your guiding…
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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…