Tag: fantasy languages

• Writing Resources for Fantasy Authors

  While I was working on my current project–which is a high fantasy piece–there were a lot of resources I found myself pulling from in order to make the story as realistic, consistent, and good as possible. It seemed like a good idea to me to put all, or at least the most important, of those…

  Katie Bachelder

  August 19, 2020

  For Writers: Builder’s Theory

  character names, epic fantasy, Fantasy, fantasy languages, maps, medieval, novel writing, setting, world-building, writing, writing tips

• A Matter of Language and Culture

  There exists in fantasy a trope that doesn’t quite feel like a trope until it comes to your attention that it appears quite frequently. It is the adventurer’s best friend and most subtle deus ex machina. It is, in essence, the “ancient language” trope, in which there exists two languages in a fantasy setting: the…

  Katie Bachelder

  February 28, 2020

  On Stories and Ethics

  Christopher Paolini, fantasy languages, Graceling, Grishaverse, inheritance cycle, Kristin Cashore, Language, Leigh Bardugo, linguistics, Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time

• April Reading Reflections

  Fair warning: This week, we’re talking about Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone. I doubt there will be any spoiler-y stuff, but if you haven’t yet read it, proceed with caution. For some time now, I’ve been thinking about the incorporation of languages in fantasy novels. As I make my way through Children of…

  Katie Bachelder

  April 19, 2019

  Reading Reflections

  #amreading, Children of Blood and Bone, epic fantasy, Fantasy, fantasy languages, Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, Tomi Adeyemi, translation