So, NaNoWriMo is over, the champagne has been drunk and the winner's logo is on my home page - what now?

Overall I'm pleased with my rough draft. Sure it's full of gaps and continuity errors, but it has a dramatic ending and a strong theme, so I think it's worth revising for submission to an agent. That's a first for me, so I'm really happy with the outcome.

Now for the revision process!

I've signed up for the December Challenge on Forward Motion, which is aimed at encouraging participants to finish off any loose ends for the year.

Well, I've spent the last ten days beavering away at the basics of my wolfkin language, such as phonology and simple grammar, and have finally come up with a name that works - Kialrrna.

I've realised that I really don't have time to complete two parent languages and then realistically meld them into a hybrid child language, so I'm just going to take a whole load of ideas from the partially-developed parents and make the child language out of that :)

My two languages, Kialrrna and Tradetalk are coming along nicely - I have most of the Kialrrna grammar pinned down, the dictionary has a search function, and there's even the beginnings of a Tradetalk phrasebook :)

Read more about them in the Conlangs in Secret Theatre section of this site.

Despite thinking I was almost done with Kialrrna last week, I find I'm still fine-tuning the syntax. Implementing all my ideas for morphology in an aesthetically-pleasing way has proved harder than I expected (especially whilst also trying to avoid anything too European-looking) - a set of suffixes that looks fine in a grammar can turn out butt-ugly when actually attached to root words :(