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Criticising a book written by a fifteen year old for being tropey is rather harsh. You should actually be criticising yourself for reading trash in the first place.

Im so sorry but have you called Transylvenia a bloody COUNTRY? IT WAS HUNGARIAN FFS LONG LIVE HUNGARY HUNGARY HUNGARY TRION WAS UNFAIR

"The Ethiopian Solar Calendar puts the start of the year on September 11th" Me, an American: yikes

Very good video !!! It's sad it doesn't have more likes :/

This works great for human based kingdoms and Empires. However, fantasy races don't think like humans, hence the fact that they're not human. Dwarves and elves are both generally adopt isolationism as a policy. If you're an isolationist, trade and expansion are not on your list of things that are important.

The trick for me is even harder: I want to create a new member of the Germanic language family so I have to stick with only Germanic rules

For a name with an interesting backstory, take the name "Lamby", the family name of my wife. It looks Danish or English at first glance, but it's actually French. From the ending by , you can tell, that its origin is Paris and its region. It's a local variant of bert. In the past, the name was rendered Lambert (cf. Christopher Lambert of Highlander fame). But bert points to an even older history, as this derives from Germanic beraht, which means "bright" or "shiny". The first syllable, lam-, was originally lant- (land, estate, property), and thus, Lamby derives from Old Germanic Lantberaht, the one with the bright estate.

Im just getting started on making a Conlang named Falsarian which is a Mix of both the Romance and Indo-Aryan Take a look at some Simple Words i created! One-Armesh Two-Disra Three-Terar Four-Catera Five-Panca Six-Sas Seven-Pasre Eight-Astera Nine-Nuoe Ten-Dasa Land-Leda Territory-Teritorya Region-Manice Plain-Patren Mountain-Mont Water-Axua Sea-Mer River-Feume Lake-Lace Delta-Adel North-Hinlagar South-Sapena East-Fatra West-Wentre Northwest-Hinwentre Northeast-Hinfatro Southwest-Sawentre Southeast-Safatro Person-Euma People-Aemo Citizen-Satte Foreigner-Sedadno\Sedadna Noble-Nibal

I have a character who will be the protagonist of my novel. His name is Shay. He's an amnesiac who didn't remember anything about his past, so when a man and his young kids found him passed out in a field, I had an idea for the youngest kid to help him out and my needlessly ineffective name system was created. I cut out 3 of each letter in the alphabet and mixed em up like you would dice in a game of liars dice. I then selected 5 letters at random and would piece them together to see what I could manage. Most times I get something that doesn't make much sense. But I'll sound out what I get and see if I can make modifications to the spelling to see if it fits! (For the sake of my story, Shay and the kid get lucky with their letter selection.)

Only second person POV I have ever come across is Oriana Fallacis A Man. It was too off putting so didn't finish the book.

Fk sensitivity readers they are censorship mongers not people who genuinely care. The rest is good advice.

superman actually has conflicts and flaws, lol

I’m still pretty amateur, so I’m just completing one science fiction short story at the moment, but it’s still hard not to go too fast. It’s even more frustrating cuz I struggled with slow pacing when I first started writing fiction. It’s difficult to strike a balance between taking ten long paragraphs to describe ten seconds and just listing off a bunch of events in rapid fire succession.

I already like the intro. Like, the video is good, but any intro usually isn't as good as this. Exactly what an intro should be, not stringing along the listener in hopes of watchtime retention but giving a synopsis of the content that makes me want to know more. engaging

I'd like to create a "bridge language" that connects Japanese language to European languages so learners find easier to learn either European languages or Japanese.

Elitza- Bulgarian for fir tree and is similar to Elizabeth. She's descended from the former Bulgarian royal family, and has to remind people that she isn't a princess.

My conlang Name: not decided yet Inspiration: Old Japanese and Japanese Word Order: SOV Writing System: Syllabary Vowels: 5 AIUEO Consonants: 25 m, n, p, b, s, z, t, ts, f, v, ʃ, tʃ, k, g, h, ɾ, l, w, j, dʒ, x, d, ɲ, q, θ So far I’ve made about 100 words, mostly verbs and haven’t made a good looking sentence past just putting one Subject, Object and Verb.

I love how sanderson did his mistborn. 3rd person limited pov and first person for internal monologues!

You do realise that most fantasy maps depict medieval nations, meaning that strait lines and large panhandles were likely not to last regardless of whether they split a single country in half or simply separated two otherwise neighboring countries.

My brother named a lot of his characters after Starcraft player's gamer tags. So when I was naming a character for his world, that's where I went as well. He named a character Scarlet, after the Starcraft player of the same name, so I named her rival after the first person who played against Scarlet in a tournament, aka Tarius.

so useful, well-written and engaging! thank you very much! <3

"Stone needs to be chiseled and will create hard edges" Looks up stone carving on UA-cam: Watches people create all sorts of different shapes and wavy lines

Ooooh, I recognize that method of switching chapter-by-chapter from main plot to subplot and I *HATE* it so much. Rather than keep me engaged, it just keeps me _enraged_ at the end of every single chapter. I think the reason is because wayyy too many authors use this method as a way to have cliffhangers every freaking chapter. This just leaves the reader feeling that _nothing is ever resolved._ There is no downtime, no time to breathe. The author ends up so concerned with "reader retention" that it's like they're injecting you with adrenaline at the end of every chapter, then leaving you chained to a chair to wait until that plot comes back two chapters from now. That's not an enjoyable reading experience and I will viciously blacklist that author in the future.

Mistake #1: making it too similar to another language. If it is to sound much like French, then it must not be otherwise like French. Mistake #2: ignoring that language is a cultural phenomenon. Mistake #3: making it too complicated Mistake #4: making it weird. My idea is of a "general Germanic" which encompasses a one-to-one relationship of sounds of Germanic languages. For this, "ts" represents English unvoiced and "dz" represents voiced English "th" (as between "bath" and "bathe". A full complement of indicative endings allows one to get away without needing nominative pronouns except in rare instances (comparison) and the subjunctive mood. Cases are limited to accusative and nominative (even Zamenhof saw this necessary for preventing some sloppy writing). The idea is to make Germanic languages easy to translate into another literary language.

I’m engineer who has this bad for large reports for many many angles. I lost weeks probably of just freaking out and procrastinating. It’s painful. This has been helpful thank you. Technical report is a story too.

for me its not elves, but mute cat raccoons

I use real-world maps all the time. Turn them 90 degrees and change the scale and you've got a great starting point. The west coast of the continent my players are on now is really the north coast of Siberia, turned 90 degrees and the scale changed to what I needed.

humans who speak languages have trouble creating languages that humans can speak

Prescience is one of the main concept of DUNE. So not only the style makes us follow Paul's struggle with his prescient abilities, but the style actually makes readers as prescient as Paul is since we can follow all characters' thoughts and exactly know the future from Irulan's epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter. From the beginning, we know the end of the story. In a way, Herbert makes us live Paul's experience fully.

I personally write my characters names two ways: it sounds nice or it describes them or the setting of the story examples for the first one is Vardalla, Kalestri and Nicodamus, from separate stories each, I invented them one way or another because the just sound nice, all three inspired by cool sounding words or names I personally encounter. examples for the second are like Avea Draug, and Bealoth Terrance. If I don't have a name for them, I literally just google names that mean words related to the story, Bealoth means "Cast under" though I'm not sure if my source for that is accurate, then Terrance comes from terra, which is earth or ground. because she lives underground in a cavern mining kingdom kinda like Moria. while Avea Draug is named as such because she lives in a dragon city in the sky. I didn't want to make it obvious so I just jumbled Dragon and removed and changed some letters to become Draug.

I've always written in first person because that's always seemed the most natural. I can see now why that's not really my best choice.

I named a character. I randomly found out that the name means a lot of things in Finnish, all of which perfectly described the character. I stuck with the name.

I write in the style of DUNE. I think of it as film in a book. It can be panoramic, or zoom in to an intimate monologue. The POV can jump from one party/location to another. But the narrator doesn't blather on about events independent of the character's actions, except when scene setting or describing happenings not involving any particular character, e.g. a huge traffic accident up the road that the MC is about to run into.

I like to use names depending on the meaning. there are a few name meaning websites out there.

one argument against river borders (some, but not all) is that in many cases rivers arent the borders of a civilization, but it’s heart. a good example of this is hungary. the danube river, the second biggest european river, runs straight through the middle of hungary, and it’s capital budapest sits right on that river.

This video is over a year old now, but it's something that I just came across. This is something that I've struggled to try to explain to other people getting into worldbuilding, about how natural boarders are a good start for nations but are not the end all be all, how nationalism or colonialism may make a nation that's typically locked to one region expand elsewhere, or how migrations of the past can lead to situations such as the Uyghurs of China or Kurds of Turkey/Iran trying to get their own independence and form "ugly" boarders. Granted, I tend to be the "more is best" approach to worldbuilding, and how events 200 years in the past can influence claims of the present and all that, and she just doesn't comprehend that scale of nation building.

2:35 bro made a whole ass video about maps but doesn’t know which was east is 😳

Just bought your novel (BL&D)✅

FYI It's pronounce Neil "Gay-min" (not guy-min")

When I built the world for my DnD campaign, I sat down and had a little game day just for myself. After making a geographical map without any political entity, I then seeded human population and a few attributes and then started to turn-based develop and fight between settlements, emerging kingdoms or nations and other political forces. Kinda like a game of risk paired with model UN, but all based on dice so it’s sufficiently random. (If you know the system Stars without number you‘ll know the sort of thing I did.) It led to an awesomely diverse political map with the benefit that every time a player would ask „why is this weird exclave a thing?“ I did not just have an answer, but could give three different answers depending on how deep into history the particular NPC went (think asking somebody „why is point roberts a thing?“ - you either give the quick answer of the line on a map or you can go full „let me explain colonization to you“ mode). It took quite some time, but because it was like a second little game for me, I really enjoyed it and it definitely enhanced the immersion of my players who always marvel at the depth of my knowledge about a fantasy world.

Another good example is the border between Norway and Russia. It was supposed to follow the Pasvik river to the fjord, but because of an important religious site on the Norwegian side. Russia gave a huge chunk of land just for that site, making the border not follow any geographical lines anymore!

18, 23 day long months with 6 seasons would make each season 69 days long. If you ad a six day long “leap week” every year, the year is 420 days long. I am aware that 6x70 is 420, but doing it my way is nicer.

No borders on my map. The nascent nations there sure like to draw them, but they lack the power or technology to enforce them. As a result every map looks different depending on who made it, and for "neutral" ones I just mark who owns each settlement (in the cases in which even that much is clear). Kinda looks like the Mount and Blade overworld

That's the problem with third person drumming - you can't hear or concentrate on what the first person narrator is saying. Extremely annoying.

I’m so proud of me, I was like that kind of looks like that part of Virginia and Delaware. Then you said it based off it. Dude I’m like the smartest mf on earth

kinda strange that i still watch these types of videos even though 1. I don't care about realism and 2. my lore is so stupid that not a single rule in this video would fit

What about 4th person?!!

Great video, thanks for sharing!

0:58 what is this style of map called? And how can I make one like it

Many know that the 38th Parallel is the dividing line between North and South Korea. Few know that the 38th parallel was decided upon when two US Army Officers were pulled into a room in the last like 12 hours of World War 2 and told “this is the Korean Peninsula, find out how we’re going to divide this with the Russians. The only requirement is that this city, Seoul, the capital, is in our zone.” They were given 30 minutes.