Brainstorm on the Mind's Sailboat
I'm making a video for a new song. The lyrics are in a made-up language (which is just a simple cipher), so I was thinking of making a custom font for it. I went looking for tips on designing conlang fonts, and ended up discovering the neography reddit. What a tragedy for my free time.
It happens often: a small detail during the creative process becomes a long, increasingly more exciting chain of "but wouldn't it be cool if I took this as an inspiration?". I'm making a game with three separate human-like species based on various animals1, and the bird-people have feathers; wouldn't it be cool if they plucked one from their body to use it as a writing instrument, and only carried and traded ink? Complementary, I could make it so that the reptile-people possess an ink-secreting gland on their body, and they've become experts in crafting fountain pens. The third species is based on small mammals, so maybe they could follow a third alternate route, and have their own writing tablets that work with their claws... or something like that, I haven't really finalized their designs yet. But thinking about it and adding details, bit by bit, following the flow and letting the furious wind of the brainstorm blow on the mind's sails, is pretty fun.
One day I'll get back to Fiamme Eterne; in the meantime, you get snippets of my thoughts.↩