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That is a fantastic approach and I was hoping to have characters get around language barriers by other means. I LIKE the idea of them struggling with something so simple, it adds some human nature to it I think.

I said the same thing when I started but I decided to give it a crack. As I mentioned earlier in the post, my languages are seriously super simple and by no means subject for any linguistics study. I started each one with just coming up with gibberish words with sounds like that I liked and...

Thanks for the kind words! The languages will pop up in signs, documents and landmarks when the characters travel to the specific locations. Unfortunately some of the languages won't be seen in this book series, but I created them just so I had authentic speech patterns from some characters...

That is true, I could offer both. I used Lulu once for a small personal project and honestly I was happy with the result but I don't think I want to use them for commercial novel printing. Createspace and LSI both seem better, although Lulu is incredibly easy to use. If I offer my book in a...

That really sucks if that is true because I want the physical version of my book available in hard cover and Createspace just doesn't offer it. As far as royalties, the cost per book at LSI is a lot lower to produce than Createspace isn't it? When I was looking into it I thought I saw posts...

Excellent article, thank you Zero. Maybe I am incorrect, but I thought LSI handled the Amazon sales as well. If that is the case, what purpose is Creatspace offering?

That is a fair reply. I know they have upfront costs but Lulu is a little pricier than I would like and I would totally go with Createspace if they had a hard cover edition to offer. Lightning Source seemed to be a bigger player in the POD market so I had just wondered if anyone had experience...

No one has used Lightning Source at all or is there something about them people aren't saying?

I find I have a great deal of respect for those who can work effectively in multiple genres, whether it be movie, music or prose. It shows great range.

In fact I have spent the past 2 years building up my world. I made an outline with topics such as "weather" "currency" "races" "geography" etc... and everything I thought of I wrote it down and logged it. That outline turned into a current 210 page reference manual on my world. (you can see a...

Well I have already created them, four of them. They are in no way anything like Tolkien, he wrote fantastic languages. I wrote just enough of mine to have a basic structure and work within the culture I need. Just enough to give foreign characters some consistency in their speech patterns...

Thank you Creed, that means a great deal to me, I had put so much time into the 4 languages I have so far. I like your idea of the elder tongue, and how they spread apart and developed on their own, because that is a little more realistic. I think it is ok that you don't write in dialects the...

No the vowel markings are permanent and always used. Where they are positioned over the consonants determines when in the word they are spoken or applied. In the bottom one, Maakk-aar, vowels are treated similarly but those glyphs are more complicated and have "syllable extensions" and a few...

Now in my examples, Daneth is one of the more widely used languages because of trade alliances and such and is their official language of business and many areas speak it. However, I am taking care to note subtle differences from regions. Just because two countries speak Daneth doesn't mean...

Hi Mara, For some of the aspects I did draw influences from some current languages. For example I took a reference from Spanish regarding how adjectives come AFTER nouns for some of my languages. I also read about some languages don't always have the same elements, so in my language of Daneth...