Process notes directory

This is a collection of process notes posts I wrote while composing Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright.

Practicalities

• Exactly which stages of construction did each book go through?
• General FAQ, but at the end there're descriptions of composition process

Modes and means

• A big effortpost on some of the key source works, and places where you can read them
• Narrator, narration, narratorial time
• Creative translation.
• On high style
• Austerity and maximalism

Inventing context

• Designing a system to generate character names with little effort
• The same for naming armours
• How the details of FTL travel came together
• Use of sources in creating the underworld

Form

• Word choice and etymology
• The uses of simile
• The five-beat line
• The alliterative line
• Rhyme royal
• A form for death-songs
• The aubade in Book 10