[Filling your worlds with words] Update 10: under 5 days left!
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 04:19:10 AM
Next essay unlocked!
Thank you to the backer who took us from 4492 to 4504 €! The language of the Expanse will be included in the essay collection.
You'll be receiving the essays on linguistic worldbuilding in these books: NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, Laura Elena Donnelly's Amberlough Dossier, Marie Brennan's Turning Darkness Into Light, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace (2 separate essays), James SA Corey's The Expanse, and a brand new, as-yet-unwritten essay on Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory.
If we reach 7500 €, all seven essays on the Foreigner series will be included!
Next goal
In the last update, I talked a little about the short story I want to share with you if we reach 6000 €. It's a high goal, I know, so if you want to read it, share this project with your friends.
The first three volumes of the anime-inspired Dragon Saga by Nicolette Andrews are available in snazzy hardcover editions.
Until next time!
[Filling your worlds with words] Update 9
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 01:13:55 AM
200 backers!
We're currently at 4371 € and 202 backers, and that means I'll be writing an essay exclusively for the backer essay collection on Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory, which features humans as space orcs and some linguistic worldbuilding techniques I thought were really cool.
What's next?
At 4500 €, the double-length essay on The Expanse by James SA Corey will be unlocked. It features a discussion of what creoles are and how they form and some Lang Belta.
After that ...
"On the Origins of Station Worker Speech"
If we reach 6000 €, or 4 times what my original goal was, all backers will receive an epub version of my never-before-published short story, "On the Origins of Station Worker Speech." (This will be epub only, because the PDF did not look good.)
I had the idea for it while I was in grad school: what if I wrote a short story but it's a sociolinguistics article? The first version was ... tediously academic in some places, because I'd just finished writing my thesis and was stuck in "cite and explain everything" mode. Which isn't very compelling for fiction. So I scaled back the tedious academia.
It's the story of Laria Becker, a German woman hired to build a space station, who only speaks a little English, but the (US-based) company gives them language classes. Mariska Waldmann, the linguist, analyzes her journal entries and various recordings from her spacesuit. So it's a story that's entirely about linguistic worldbuilding from an angle you might not have considered!
I made a cover and everything
Until next time!
[Filling your worlds with words] Update 8 - flash sale!
about 1 year ago
– Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 01:53:44 AM
Good morning, everyone!
We've broken 4200 € (thank you!), and the next mini-stretch goal is at 4500 €, where the next essay in the collection will unlock -- the double-length essay on Lang Belta from the Expanse. I really enjoyed writing that one, because I really like the books. Tell your friends!
Flash sale!
I want to help people work out the details of their linguistic worldbuilding, and I would love it if this tier sold out. If you have a question that can't wait a year until I finish the book, this is for you!
Launching tomorrow! This looks quirky and cute. From the author: “I’ve always known that if someone wants to murder me, the easiest way is through my stomach. I just hadn't expected anyone to kill me today.” ―Hope Sze, physician and glutton
Launching next week! It's a cozy fantasy mystery set in the author's Bureau of Magic Abuse universe.
Until next time!
[Filling your worlds with words] Update 7 - coming soon: flash sale
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 04:54:51 AM
We're in the long slog of the middle, with a new backer or two a day. We're at 3939 €, which is a nice round number, and 182 backers.
Coming soon: flash sale
I love linguistic worldbuilding, and I want to give everyone who wants to pick my brain about their worlds the opportunity to do so. So if you're looking at that reward tier and thinking, "Wow, I would love that but I can't afford it," get your finger ready to click!
From September 4-8 (9 am CET - 9 pm CET) or until supplies run out, the Q&A with me tier will be half price (125€)!
Launching September 5: The final installment in the epic fantasy Ian's Realm Saga AND a boxed set of all 7 volumes.
[Filling your worlds with words] Update 6
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 01:59:38 AM
Next essays unlocked!
While we didn't hit 200 backers yesterday for the brand new essay, we did hit 250% funding, which means the two essays on Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan books will be in the collection.
The next essay (on The Expanse) will unlock at 300% funding, or 4500 €. We're at 3859 right now, or just over 600 € away.
All backers will receive a copy of the essay collection by the end of October. I'll be editing them a little and making sure all the links still work, then sorting out the epub formatting.
Keep spreading the word!
Tell your friends, tell your crit partners, hit the share button. The higher we fund, the more I'll be able to focus on writing this (and not doing the freelancer hustle), and the sooner you'll get it in your hands.
Crit tiers still available!
Two critiques from editor and poet Cislyn Smith and the short story critique from Jordan Shiveley are still available, as well as all the Q&A sessions/critiques with me. If you want some one-on-one feedback on your linguistic worldbuilding (or if your project needs to be done before the book is ready), you can pick my brain.
No elsewhere on Kickstarter this time; I've got some freelancer hustle this week that's eaten into my working time.
Until next time!
Musya wishes I would spend more time with her and less sitting at the computer
