BibLITotheque 6: Conlang for Dummies Part 1 by akrasiel, journal
BibLITotheque 6: Conlang for Dummies Part 1
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Welcome to the sixth issue of BibLITothèque: the Writer's Library! This issue is about a topic both exciting and terrifying: creating new languages for your story, in the vein of Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin or Star Trek's Klingon. If you’re writing fantasy, sci-fi, or any other story in an invented setting, sooner or later you’ll run into the issue of whether or not to use made-up words and names.
Conlang (constructed language) is complicated as hell, so this guide is geared toward making life as simple as possible. Good writing has few words doing a lot of work, and for the sake of your story, conlang
what if I could
reawaken passion
with all the accuracy
of unceasing information:
invocation, incantation:
playing necromancer
to my own desires,
becoming resurrector,
becoming conjurer?
what if I could
bring life
to dead love
with the strict exactitude
of a Gregorian
intonation?
magnetism - forehead to knees
halfway between fetal and natal is the fatal position
my back curves in inverse fibonacci spirals
crack opens each vertebrae
tears my spinal cord, bares my neuroses
read the insinuation in the sinuation of my bones
I am no armadillo
my arms neither armour nor armament
only poles for whiteflag semaphor
I turn my back to you not in rejection but in hope
you will shield my weakest front.