shutsumon (shutsumon) wrote in specficwriters, @ 2008-06-09 20:05:00 |
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Worldbuilding Project : Day Nine - Language
Once again the quoted text comes from 30 Days of World-Building by Stephanie Bryant.
Day Nine - Language
Listen to how different syllables sound to you. Do they excite you? Do you associate a particular sound with an emotion or place or memory? Write down some generic preferences for your languages-- "I want the language spoken by the elves to sound like water, and the language spoken by the dwarves to sound like gravel rubbing together" and then go listen to what those things sound like. Write down the syllables you hear when you run a faucet or sit by a stream, for instance. Those sounds will be your "root" syllables when making up your names for places and people and things.