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One Night in a Vampire's House (Intermediate)

Easy Stories in English

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Development of the Bi-Cameral Mind

Conlangers are people who make up their own artificial languages. For me, it was a little different. I've never read Tolkien, but I've always been a big language nerd. So designing Kundun, my own fantasy world, there are a lot of geographical and political elements that are not super clear because, well, if they're not relevant or necessary to know to the story I'm writing right now, they can wait. But there is a big conceit of the world, a big concept in the world which has a huge effect on all the characters. The humans are naturally ordered and there are lots of magical creatures such as orcs and elves and dragons who are naturally chaotic.

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