Recent content by Saigonnus

I feel that the key to deciding how the various peoples interact, is knowing the ins-and-outs of the various peoples themselves. What do they value? Religion? (People tend to deal more favorably with people of the same/similar religion) Government? (Like above, with a "good/fair" sort of...

*Thinks back* I don't recall ever interacting with you, but nevertheless, welcome back to the scribes. I left for a while too though, so it was probably during that interim.

The first draft of anything is complete trash. The most important thing is: finish something. Start to finish, terrible plotlines, boring characters, plot holes included. Anything bad can always be improved with ability and time, and practice. For characters: I tend to assign character traits...

My first was about 2 decades ago. About a young man who is on his way back from somewhere (I have never decided where), and had to pass by a forest that is thought to be the territory of "evil creatures"; though no one had seen any since the time of his grandfather. While passing by, a strange...

I hadn't read anything by H.P. Lovecraft, so I wasn't aware. Still sounds awful to me though.

Things looked bad for the Elders, until one Outer Lord defected: Shub-Niggurath. With Shub’s help—and the creation of powerful artefacts called Elder Relics—the Grand Elders turned the tide and drove the Lords into hiding. The second part of that name sounds like something proper people...

Being bound so makes things more difficult, most especially when nature calls; which happens all too frequently from the undulating sway of these infernal creatures. Horses, she understands, and even likes, but these foul-tempered beasts aren't fit to make glue by her estimation. Not for the...

My deepest condolences for you and yours.

The Kindle version of "Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan. For me, one of my favorite series, an oldie-but-goodie. Something I can use to pass the time on road trips, on break at work, or at the doctor's office. The Kindle version of "Faerie Rising" by A.E. Lowan. The blurb I saw on Amazon gave...

The faithful stop believing...

I am the same as Xena; and likely others. When I listen to music when I write, it has to be without lyrics or I get distracted by the language. Lindsey Stirling maybe, or Apocalyptica, depends on what I am doing.

When making a conlang; you have to consider a lot of things. Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Intensifiers, Numbers, Alphabet, Adjectives, Occupations, Proper names, Pronouns, Prepositions, Slang terms, Curse words, and of course word order, and how it actually "sounds" when spoken. If it seems clumsy...

That idea of her having an "oracle" is predicated on the idea that she is "time-traveling to the past" and going to a medieval version of the same world. If; like passing through the wardrobe into Narnia, it's a separate world; with its own rules, then the phone would be of minimal usage in...

I like the idea of her having a phone... maybe she comes across someone (like an inventor, artificer) who can figure how it works, and makes a "makeshift" charger for it using a windmill, or waterwheel, something like that. After all, here in our world, they have used electricity for things like...

I would say: If it's important to the story; as in central to the plot, character development etc, then it should be explained well, with as much detail as made necessary by the story. With that in mind, no one really like infodumping, so perhaps you could use a sprinkle here and there to impart...