finally, the chronicles of Azthagnabiaqx

You’re not far off.

That little bastard had it coming.

Can’t wait to expand my vocabulary of Extremely Specific Context Words and Names.

This historian of premodern Europe (various languages in footnotes when I was still an academic) always feels pleased when this happens.

Not common words … yet!

Good luck! I hope you have lots of fun with it

I remember how torturous it was reading "Lord of the Rings" as a child learning English as a second language in high school. I haven't skipped any of your books yet, so hopefully I won't skip this one for linguistic reasons 😜

Reject modernity, return to vi.

Do editors ever get hazard pay? 😁

Do you outline the whole thing before you begin writing or do you fly by the seat of your trousers?

Mostly the whole thing. Always the world in depth, though with some selected books (Tyrant Philosophers series) I just do the world and characters and let the plot unravel as it will.

Wondering if it’s just me, but does a soundtrack pop into your head as you’re writing your scenes ?

I'm usually writing to music anyway tbh.

It might not be so bad. Modern spell checkers have AI trained on all the horrific spellings of all the worlds languages, and the collective works of J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft. This battle of wills could be epic - perhaps even a Netflix mocumentary?

Almost finished Samantha Harvey's Orbital and then it's on to this one.🤓

Good, hate those anyway.

Sooooo…you’re saying I should plan to listen to the audiobook, not read the print version? 😇

The poor audiobook narrators!

( you probably know this, but you can add words to your spellchecker, and also have text shortcuts so that you can type Axzt and it will autocorrect to Axzterriformicrucibubble)

I do know that, and I've done it for proper nouns, or occasionally for usages that are so close to real worlds they keep getting autocorrected, but in this case it's characters speaking in a mangled vernacular all the time so there'd be far too many.

Oof, yeah, your editor is going to earn their wage!

This is exciting!

Adrian's spellchecker:

Spellchecker be damned!