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Even Bearing Gifts II: Lyigrnhld by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Even Bearing Gifts II: Lyigrnhld

Lyigãnhld patted the dull-edged stiletto holding her mane in its spiral bun, and got her handheld out. “What’s the task today?” she muttered, in Naej-eater Speech—or Zbin-Hõgokõla, as it was called in the Zbin-Ãld used by the Empire’s government. She waved the handheld slowly back and forth as she read; zledo found moving objects easier to focus on. She stopped, her ears turning partway back in a frown. “May the scavengers that eat what the beasts of prey leave of his corpse, be eaten by the Hostile Angels,” she muttered. In the Ãld, Khõndushe, or Khmõ languages, it

Fine and Fitting 2F: Prrngeikhrrlg by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2F: Prrngeikhrrlg

Chattering his teeth impatiently, Põngeikhõlg spun his long laser around his fingers, by its ring-shaped grip. The long laser was a relatively simple design, just the cylinder of the apparatus and the ring of the grip. Its thumb-trigger was a switch set into the side of the grip. There was also a frequency selector, at the top of the grip; it had three settings, near-infrared, green, and near-UV. The laser itself was a cylinder ending in a circular lens. The lens was wide, one bãgh—as wide as many mortars. The laser was, as its name said, long; its overall length was nineteen bãghã, about seven-tenths the averag

Fine and Fitting 2E: Tully Hunyadi by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2E: Tully Hunyadi

Every eye in the room, at least that Hunyadi could see, turned to look at Nakano Takehito, who was leaning against a crate, either asleep or just completely relaxed. A song, electronic music and female vocals, had started playing, fairly loudly. Since the Marines were the closest to him, Hunyadi went over to him. He cleared his throat. “Sir…” he started to say. “You’re interrupting,” Nakano said, not looking up. “You’d break a stain-glass window just to set up a machinegun nest, wouldn’t you? This is Suzubayashi Akemi’s ‘Uchûjin no Kioku no Owaranai Warutsu.’”

Fine and Fitting 2D: Lyelrrpolh by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2D: Lyelrrpolh

“It’s too bad we’re also after those murdering scouts,” Põngeikhõlg muttered. “It’d be very satisfying to just blow their position to particulates with the artillery. Or have the combat-engineer file do it? Let them earn their specialist pay.” “I know, lord,” Lyelõpolh said, beside him. The armored trailer that served as the command and control room for the counter-invasion of this city had several stations, each monitoring a different set of battlefield data. Khubõngi, Põngeikhõlg’s wife and plans officer, was sitting at one of them. “But the scou

Fine and Fitting 2C: Lou Khoury by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2C: Lou Khoury

“They’re mad you accused them of killing those civilians,” Private Ulibarri said, covering his mouth so none of the Argentineans could read his lips. Most of them were probably too busy with their heated discussion in Spanish to notice, anyway. “I got that, thank you, private,” Second Lieutenant Louis Khoury said dryly. Even if their expressions and tone hadn’t spoken for itself, Khoury, commander of the second platoon of Halberd Company, spoke French and Arabic, so he could usually puzzle out what Spanish meant. “Well, if not them, who?” asked Tully Hunyadi, the lance corporal in command of the

Fine and Fitting 2B: Prrngeikhrrlg by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2B: Prrngeikhrrlg

“Another one,” Põngeikhõlg said, nudging the corpse with his armored boot. “How did we manage to miss so many barbarians sneaking out of our perimeter?” “The analysis currently indicates there was a third group of barbarian troops,” said Khubõngi, over the comm in Põngeikhõlg’s helmet. “They didn’t have to sneak out of our perimeter, because they were able to sidestep its closing in, from the beginning. Indeed they may have been the first to enter the city, and blazed the trail for the others.” “Can’t have been many of them,” he sniffed.

Fine and Fitting 2A: Tully Hunyadi by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2A: Tully Hunyadi

Demeter had no moon and no life. Nevertheless it had an atmosphere with an oxygen content comparable to Earth’s; the exo-meteorologists thought it was due to far-UV breaking up oxygen compounds in the upper atmosphere, rather than photosynthesis by organisms. Orange K-class stars had much less visible and near-UV radiation than yellow G-class ones like Sol, but almost as much far-UV. Being close enough to the star to get Sol-like levels of visible radiation meant much more far-UV hit Demeter’s upper atmosphere; most of it didn’t make it down to the planet, since atmospheres were opaque to far-UV. The lack of a moon probably

Ridicule Corrects Morals by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Ridicule Corrects Morals

The door, last in a series of six, slid shut. The six-spoked wheel, actually a miniature replica of the Daedalus Station torus, turned until a deadbolt shut with a solid thunk. Alexander was the last one out of the cinema, after his creator, and his ‘brother,’ Darius. Thanks to the...peculiar...type of movies Dr. Evander Lombardi usually watched, Alex and Darius were the only ones of their ‘siblings’ who could stand to accompany him. Two of their ‘sisters,’ Jane and Tammy, had tried it; both had quit a few minutes in. Only Darius and Alex had the unremitting cynicism required to sit through some of the cine

Even Bearing Gifts I: Pam Delvigne-Mannlicher by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Even Bearing Gifts I: Pam Delvigne-Mannlicher

“Oh, come on, again?” Fritz said. His tone was annoyed, but he’d already rolled onto his side and cuddled her against his chest. “Sorry,” Pam whispered, still trembling. “I…I think it’s the stress. The uncertainty, you know? Starting over on an entirely new planet—first day of work, of living here, tomorrow!” “I know,” he said, kissing her hair. “I don’t…well, I’d be lying if I said it was not annoying, but it’s not like you can help it.” “Thanks,” she said, and leaned back from him. “I thought I had this licked. It's

Fine and Fitting 1C: Nacho Diaz by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 1C: Nacho Diaz

As Seùhndíng read the file, Ignacio Díaz watched the zled woman. According to Seùhndíng , she was a nun, and this facility was a monastery; zled science was all handled by monks. That didn’t strike Díaz as being as strange as it probably seemed to most people; he was named after the co-founder of the order that ran the Vatican Observatory, after all. The zled woman, Dhêmãshlek, Seùhndíng said her name was, was roughly 190 cm tall, though part of that was just a zled’s quasi-digitigrade posture. She was slim, with only the slight plumpness at the chest that served a zled as breast

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Even Bearing Gifts II: Lyigrnhld by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2F: Prrngeikhrrlg by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2E: Tully Hunyadi by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2D: Lyelrrpolh by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2C: Lou Khoury by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2C: Lou Khoury

Fine and Fitting 2B: Prrngeikhrrlg by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 2A: Tully Hunyadi by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Ridicule Corrects Morals by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Even Bearing Gifts I: Pam Delvigne-Mannlicher by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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Fine and Fitting 1C: Nacho Diaz by nKhyi-naonZgo, literature

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6 Tips for Creating Your Story's Timeline by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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6 Tips for Creating Your Story's Timeline

6 Tips for Creating Your Story's Timeline Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 3 “World Building” – Section 1 “History” (Previous Tutorial) (Next Tutorial) “Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it in appropriate events.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay I, History From the events which take place in your novel, to the culture of the people groups present, to the attitudes present in the characters, to the nature of the cosmo

8 Tips for Plotting a Fictional World Timeline by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature

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8 Tips for Plotting a Fictional World Timeline

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THIS PAGE WILL REMAIN ACTIVE FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND RECORDS, IT IS OUTDATED. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEWEST VERSION. 8 Tips for Plotting the Timeline of Your Fictional World Anybody Can Write a Novel Chapter 1 “World-building” – Section 2 “World History” With Links to Supplementary Material Once you have established what Type of Story you want to write, you have created the cornerstone of your story—an idea or a blank page of the exact size and shape and color that you want. The next step is to start the sketch by creating a historical foundation for your story. Now, I'

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Born at an early age and have not died since. I live at the foot of a mountain sacred to two pantheons. I like semi-hard science fiction and I hate dark fantasy (not urban fantasy, I mean DarkerAndEdgier standard quasi-medieval fantasy). Production design is as important in writing as it is in film.

My username is from a conlang in one of my books, because I'm that nerdy.

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Tony DiTerlizzi, Shiono Etorouji, Pete Abrams, Jacques-Louis David, Don Davis, Arakawa Hiromu, Onigunsou, Miwa Shirow

Favourite Movies

Chronicles of Riddick, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

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Psych, Farscape, Babylon 5, DCAU shows, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, Tengen Toppa Guren Lagan, Kill la Kill, Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Whitesnake, Warrant, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osborne, ALI Project, TM Revolution

Favourite Books

Lord of the Rings, Ballad of the White Horse, Ball and the Cross, Servile State

Favourite Writers

Hilaire Belloc, Regine Pernoud, Chretien de Troyes, G. K. Chesterton, Larry Niven, C. J. Cherryh, Robert Howard, Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, P. G. Wodehouse

Favourite Games

Skyrim, Halo (the whole series except for Wars), Destiny 1 & 2, Fire Emblem Awakening, 2nd or 3rd Edition D&D (currently dabbling in 5th), Pathfinder, old WoD

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Xbox One

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Word, Wikipedia, Project Rho's Atomic Rockets site.

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Manga, comics, linguistics, history, philosophy, religion, anthropology, economics, martial arts, guns, cats, science.

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nKhyi-naonZgo

Sep 18, 2019

This link might help some fellow conlangers.

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nKhyi-naonZgo

Sep 8, 2019

5-7-5

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Felt like writing a haiku about Titan. Used a first-line ya for the kireji, which feels kinda half-assed. 寒してや メタン水圏 茶色空 (Romaji) Samushite ya Metan suiken Chairo sora (Literal English) It's cold Methane hydrosphere Brown sky (English meter-preserving) It is very cold In the methane hydrosphere And brown-colored sky

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nKhyi-naonZgo

Nov 2, 2018

That's Not Writing, That's Typing

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Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac's aversion to rewriting. Me, on NaNoWriMo. In principle I have nothing against encouraging people who want to write, to write. I do have an issue with advocating a quantity-over-quality approach (don't bother arguing about the fact NaNo does that, their official site has tips on how to artificially inflate word-count). I also have a certain amount of issue with their supportive-at-all-costs atmosphere; a lot of people's story ideas are bad, and they should be told so, as tactfully as possible ("this princess rescues herself"—how are you participating in an event that started in 1999, when you apparently li

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ZigNaj

Mar 26, 2021

Been going through your blog (starting from the old stuff because real men do that!) Is there any chance of my encountering your vampire hunter novel? I really would like to see it. Right now I'm much more in a vampire hunting than science fiction mood.