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Practicum: Fictoscience in Fantasy

Posted on 05/19/202406/12/2024 By Anne Winchell No Comments on Practicum: Fictoscience in Fantasy
Practicum: Fictoscience in Fantasy
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This week, I examine practical ways of using fictoscience, which is a method of incorporating made up words in a way that makes sense and doesn’t devolve into technobabble. I provide two scenes as well as lists of suffixes that I used to create the various words in the new vocabulary of the world of … Read More “Practicum: Fictoscience in Fantasy” »

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