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How To AutoCreate A ConLang

Thursday, September 3, 2009

I’m writing this in response to the person who e-mailed me asking for instructions on how to use my Conlang Word Maker.
Now, without any intended smarmy-ness, I really thought it was self-explanatory, but, then again, when I wrote this webapp, I was steeped in conlanging. Also, it was based on another program called LangMaker [...]

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An Upsidedown World

Friday, May 8, 2009

I’m always looking for new twists on old themes.
And, frankly, the whole “alternate Earth” thing is a very old theme. But, I have to admit, it’s one that I can’t get away from in my own head. One of the alternate Earths that I contemplate on a regular basis is an inverted Earth. An Earth [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Lewis!

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Today is C.S. Lewis’ birthday.
For those of you who don’t know him, C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, which has been made into movies and mini-series several times. Lewis was a contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien and, in fact, was part of the same writing group, the Inklings. It was there that the two became [...]

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Happy Birthday, Bram!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is Bram Stoker’s birthday.
If you’ve been living under a cultural rock for the past hundred years or so, you might not know that Bram Stoker wrote the now infamous Dracula. He wrote other books as well, and was quite well known in his own time for his work in [...]

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Happy Birthday, Ms. Rowling!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Today is J.K. Rowling’s Birthday!
If you don’t know who J. K. Rowling is, well, you certainly haven’t been paying attention. She is, in short, the creator of Harry Potter and crew. As a divorced, single mother struggling to scrape by on public assistance, aka “the Dole”, in the UK, she wrote Harry Potter and the [...]

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Three Birthdays

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Three birthdays today, all brought to you by way of the Writer’s Almanac.
Today is the birthday of Carl Jung, who was born in Kesswil, Switzerland in 1875. His father was a pastor who was losing his faith. This so shocked Jung as a boy that he decided to become a scientist instead of a minister [...]

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Happy Birthday, Stranger!

Monday, July 7, 2008

Today is the birthday of Robert Heinlein.
Mr. Heinlein was born on this day in 1907 in Butler, Missouri. He wrote numerous novels and collections of short stories. He is best known for his novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, about a boy born during the first manned mission to Mars. It’s filled with values from [...]

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License to Party!

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Happy birthday, Bond!
Well, it’s more accurate to wish his creator, Ian Flemming, happy birthday.
Yes, today is Ian Flemming’s birthday, according to the Wikipedia. Born in London, England in 1908, Flemming wanted to be a diplomat, but he failed the Foreign Office examination and decided to go into journalism. He worked for the Reuters News Service [...]

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