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Before I started writing The Pagan Family I was working on a fantasy novel. I put it to one side when I realized, first, that I was a lot better at writing non-fiction than fiction, and, second, that I was more interested in creating the culture in which the story took place than in writing the story itself. (I've returned to it from time to time, though, as opportunity and inspiration arises, and if I spent all my time on it I could probably finish a first draft. I won't, though. My dream is that when my grandchild is old enough (she was born in 2014, so eight at this writing) my daugher will have the time to help me revise it. She's a very good writer, although she hasn't had the opportunity in a long time to do any. It would be fun, though probably a bit frustrating, to work with her.
Of course if I was going to write a convincing fantasy novel I needed to invent a culture, which obviously had to include a language. Not that I wasn't already interested in making languages, of course; I'd made up the beginnings of one at least twice before. This time, though, I wanted one as complete as possible, and as non-Indo-European as possible. Now, inventing a culture, especially a language, Kwendynyju, is a truly geeky thing to do. I’m not alone in this sort of thing, of course, but then there are a lot of geeks.
Since two of my main interests in life are religion and language, those two areas of my fantasy land, Tuadem, are particularly well-developed. This will be obvious from these excerpts from my writings on Tuadem.
Book of Hymns
History
The Kwenydynu Language.htm
Kwenydynu Pronunciation
Tua Religion
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