I’m glad that you achieve the goal.
Congratulations!
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That is really good to hear! You pushed through.
Awesome!
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Thanks!
@copyedit - Yes, I am alive as well. Just chilling. Writing mentally.
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writing lite
Hello, everybody!
How’s life going for ya?
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I want to know if anyone else does this.
I am going to try this method that I can only hope I stick with.
Whenever I come up with an idea (outside my two novels) that I find interesting, I am going to turn that into a single chapter and save until I feel like I can come back to it at a later time.
So, I am going to jot it down in a chapter format, whether it is written in novel or play format, then push it away until I feel like there is a chance, I can come back to it as a novel.
If for some reason, I cannot do that, I shall jot the idea down and again push it to the side.
I especially want to try writing it in a chapter. Does anyone else do this or not at all?
EDIT: Or I can do it in a short story format then push it to the side until I feel like it is worth looking at.
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Been doing year end trends for my writing portfolio on Pixiv. So far happy with results.
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I like zero drafting in a sense.
I have to remember that I am supposed to write freely and not think too much of it.
Off Topic: I just realized something about the anime Sailor Moon. Princess Serenity comes from a kingdom ruled by her mother the queen. Yet there has NEVER been any mention of Princess Serenity having a father. So, my question is why name the Moon Kingdom a kingdom when there was never truly a king, and the sole monarch has always been a woman? Wouldn’t that make it a queendom instead of a kingdom. I haven’t touched the manga in ages, but I can’t even recall if Princess Serenity has a grandfather. I am starting to think that Queen Serenity is truly a single parent.
That always struck me as odd. I mean it makes sense to call it a kingdom, because the word “queendom” isn’t even a word, but I just figure that it would be something else than a kingdom. Not to mention the Lunar Kingdom is affiliated with the other planets who are all kingdoms too. So, the Sailor Guardians are all princesses of their planet kingdoms last I checked. And Earth would be a part of that affiliation too which again; is a kingdom.
That would mean the Lunar kingdom could be a Lunar Empire in a sense or something along those lines. Since Princess Serenity’s mother then Neo Queen Serenity, rules not only moon then earth, but the entire universe if memory serves me.
This is giving me a headache and I am overthinking things way too much. I love Sailor Moon, but this is too much thinking for even me.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong. I am starting to get tired.
On Topic:
I am going to have to rethink my plans. My fictional world of Llyria is a massive place that is growing and changing constantly in my mind. To write one novel or one novel series set in the world of Llyria is just bonkers to me. Like there are so many characters with their own stories that relates to what is happening/happened/will happen in the world of Llyria.
These stories stretch out over the course of time/ages. However, they are not really connected.
So, yes, I am going to focus on The House of Naivin as a standalone story once again. As for Red Reign: Monster in White, that will NOT be set on Llyria. Instead, Red Reign will be placed on a planet that hits closer to home…Mars. I am really leaning towards a combination of Mobile Suit Gundam meets John Carter: A Princess of Mars for Red Reign.
So, there you have it. I have a plan now time to place it into action.
Battle for the Photon Core is now on Amazon and Kindle WOOOOOOO!!!
falls over and sleeps
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Congratulations!
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Thankie
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Part of it is how the etymology works:
For example, kin and king are related words, so it takes on a connotation of clan leader, your brother long before it became something of a monarchy. So, kingdom was more like “land belonging to a clan”.
Otoh, Queendom isn’t a word: you’d be coining something to use it, along the lines of " Awomen" vs " Amen": it just doesn’t make sense, given that the word isn’t quite rooted in the sexes, historically.
Queen, derives from wife.
English is the about the only language out there that doesn’t have a word for “female king”, so coming from another language to English, most people would assume that kingdom is inclusive of both sexes as their languages are built to do just that. And it is that way for us, as well, except we live in a generation that rage quits over “man” being short for “mankind” and not specifically mentioning woman at all. English is more a gender-neutral language, with words deriving from insane places.
So, a nation with a Queen and no King would be Kingdom because the Queen would be “Female King” in their language, not “alien word that has nothing to do with kingdom”.
As usual, English is an anomaly.
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You got that right. Geez!
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I hope that answers it, though.
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Yeah…it’s a bit funny because in my fictional world of Llyria there are actual queendoms along with kingdoms.
So, yeah it is weird now that I am thinking about it.
The queendoms were found by women while the kingdom were found by men but can still be ruled by a woman if the crowned heir is a female. For the kingdoms, any gender can rule, but for the queendoms only females can rule.
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Then you have reason to coin the term. Rules being different requires redefining what’s going on.
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Princedoms also exist, so does that mean there are princessdoms?
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Wouldn’t that in a sense be “principalities” though?
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