NaNoWriMo

Yep. In two days starts the National Novel Writing Month and I'm pretty excited about it, since it's my first.

After a little thinking, I decided I'll be writing in spanish instead of english, so I can tap into my mutant writing skills, plus my uber-fantabulous porteño spanish. Well, not really; it's just that I'm more confident in my mother tongue when it comes to writing 1667 words per day.

The other thing is what I'll be writing about. Frankly, I have no idea. Not that I'm worried; I believe the best part of NaNoWriMo is exactly that: working on the fly.

So... wish me luck!

PS: I was writing a post the other day at work but was interrupted by, well, work. If I can, I'll post it tomorrow.

Just passing through

It's been a while...

Lately I seem unable to focus on linguistics, at all.

Work and college consume almost all of my time, and the little I have to spare I'm using to finish reading some books I started some 3 or 4 months ago. One of them, Conan the Cimmerian, is the best read I've had in a long time. Robert E. Howard was truly a master of pulp fantasy, or sword and sorcery, as some call the genre. His stories are dark, rich, full of descriptions and, most interestingly for a conworlder, deep. Aparently, after writting two or three stories set in Hyboria, Howard wrote a short (some 4000 words iirc) essay called the Hyborian Age, where he set all the background he needed to tie the stories in a cohesive way.

An appendix in that book names a book by one Thomas Bulfinch; perhaps it's worth further reading...