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The intensive Academic Writing class has ended, leaving me with a bit more free time than I’ve had this last month. My linguistics class, aka the interesting one, has started, making me think about conlanging again. And Loki has started posting stuff about his work again over at his blog.

All this made me open up my own map again yesterday, for the first time since July. Back then, I redrew it completely, from scratch, and promptly forgot about it once I started working on the graveyards. So when I opened it again yesterday, I realized two things. 1) I’ve been making plans for the wrong map for the past week, and 2) I hate this map.

Seriously, I hate it. I hate the look and the layout and the colors and the shapes! Had I a printer I would print it out, just so I could crumple it up and throw it out the window. I cannot understand why on Earth I decided to replace my old map with this offal.

That is, I could not understand, until I opened my old map and discovered how immensely poorly drawn it was.

As a result of this, I’m throwing it all out. I’m redrawing, much larger, based on the old map, not the new.

In the spirit of the fresh start, I’m also throwing out the conlang fragments I’ve posted about in this category. It wasn’t really going anywhere anyway. I’m hoping the linguistics class will prove inspirational and educational for when I’m trying that again.

I’m feeling good about this.

The next step in the LCK is relative clauses. As is my new habit, I’ll put all the grammar stuff behind the cut, so you can easily skip it.

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With a hectic week winding down, I finally get to get back to my conlanging.

If you have no interest whatsoever in conlanging, you don’t need to read beyond the cut. here’s a joke, so your trip wasn’t wasted:

Why won’t sharks attack lawyers? Professional courtesy.

What? Like I’m a comedian?

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I’m not doing well with these templates. Every time I thing I’ve made progress, all content vanishes. All help files I find seem to assume that I want to do minor tweaks to an already existing theme, which isn’t what I want at all, so it’s slow going. So I’m taking a break from it today, to write a little summary.

You see, in my old blog, which I was doing until I purchased this, I was in the middle of a project, a conworld. Or, more accurately, a conlang, a constructed language. The idea is to make a language for my imagined world, for later use in stories and such. I figure that, since I’m now moving over here, this would be a good moment to summarize and revise where needed, so that I can continue working on it here without needing to constantly refer back to my old blog.

Since some people might not give a damn, I’m throwing in a cutoff here…

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