Re: Charyan novel! (was: Re: [CONLANG] I'm back!)

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

>
> Which reminds me... are the plans to use sourceforge canceled, or have
> you been too busy with that real-life thingy? Heh, while this energy
> lasts I might as well help out...
>
I went to sourceforge -- but it proved very difficult to work
with their cvs stuff. At least, at the time. I do have Kura
under cvs now, and it's a simple matter of opening a port in my
firewall and creating an account to give people access to the
source.

I've started porting Kura to Qt 3.x, only to notice that there
isn't a gratis version of Qt 3.x for Windows yet, so I'm dithering
a bit right now, and working on a real interlinear editor, instead
of the one I had.

> > and then writing a book on Python.
>
> Yay! Title? If only 2.2 wouldn't dump on me while it compiles, of all
> things...
>
GUI programming with Python and Qt -- online available at
http:://www.opendocs.org, and it should be orderable from Fatbrain or
Borders, and soon Amazon. It gets back from the printer the fifteenth.


> > And now I've started a novel, which includes snatches from all Charyan
> > languages. I feel a new grammar of Classical Charyan becoming necessary.
>
> Now THIS you must tell us more about! *crossing fingers* What's the
> genre? Fantasy? Travelogue? Or maybe you could get away with "magic
> realism"?
>
Fantasy, absolutely. Based on the adventures of Murxao in the temple of
Qunayir (both can be found on my website). I'm now at 22.000 words, and
I've already got fights, gods and a love interest :-). And lots of
language. An expanded account of the trouble Murxao has learning
Classical Charyan from someone who doesn't even know classical and
Denden are different languages.


Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org