#fanmys

(Used for at least two of my Royal Houses)

"First Given, Second Given, [Regnal Name], Patronym and/or Matronym, [Birth House], of House ____"

The brackets indicate names only given to specific people under specific circumstances.

Given Names:

The First Name is reserved for family/close circles only.

The Second Name is what is used in public. This is the Given name used on documents, and for Shortened Titles.

These names are typically unique to the person.

Regnal Name:

Heirs choose their Regnal name traditionally upon their majority day, but they're not used or publicized until the Coronation Ceremony.

Non-heir princes/princesses do not get a Regnal Name.

Patro-Matronyms:

These are names that reference family; having similar sounds, meanings, or are just the same name from one/both of their parents. Sometimes parents choose to not use their own name, but instead turn to grandparents, or great-grandparents.

Traditionally, fathers choose the patronym for their son(s) while mothers choose the matronym for their daughter(s).

Commonly, the heir gets both a patronym and a matronym, which is hyphenated. It is also common, but less so, that the heir gets their own unique 'nyms' while the non-heir sons share the same patronym and all non-heir daughters share the same matronym.

House Name(s):

House names are typically put after the Patro-Matronyms, styled as "of House ____" after a comma. So it works as both a title and a name.

I have at least a memory of some spitballing ideas, like it's a letter or written declaration that makes JT -the fmc- think the revolution is actually still around but i skipped that because she's supposed to be doing this on her own and her grandfather would immediately jump to help her and I don't want that. it has to be vague, maybe magical? There's a spell that is a huge spoiler, so maybe an orb thingy that can help cast that spell, which would be a good full story moment if in the end she... reverses the spell, but then how does that lead to step two? I know the twist, and I thought if I knew how it started and how it ended I'd be able to fill in the blanks sort of easily. But I don't this is so frustrating. why did I try to write a mystery????

I failed! I'm not upset about this, I knew I wouldn't make it to 50k, especially when I had much less time over this month to write and didn't know what I was doing half of the time. What disappoints and confuses me more about my writing this month is that I somehow didn't even start my main plot?? In hindsight, I probably wrote a few scenes that I could skip, and could rearrange most of what I've written to be after the scene which kick-starts the main mystery. I just wanted to establish some things first, and blinked and now not only is the month done but I hadn't gotten to where I wanted to be. Oh, well. I started this project because I explicitly don't consider myself good at writing and I want to be better. This is how you be better. You write baffling bad drafts.

I had lots of fun this month fleshing out my world and characters, and this has taught me how different priorities are when world building vs writing. Like, I still haven't really settled on an eye or hair color for my main character, but that's not really important since I haven't needed to describe her to the reader that explicitly. BUT I have described her grandmother, so I have a more solid idea of what she looks like! Interesting, right?

I'm going to continue writing this WIP, and I'm going to continue trying to write daily, until I meander my way into the end of the story. I then plan on rereading my work, annotating it, and then writing my second draft based on those notes. I have no plans on what to do after that.

I had a fun experience with nanowrimo, and I would have never started this WIP if i wasn't for the challenge!

It's about trade, with a "trade diplomat" from another country being a bit of a jerk to the MC's father because he's not really king. It's supposed to be early fall, so I guess it could concern each country's harvest and renewing contracts. But the lingo is hard to research because all I can find is modern tariffs and opinions on the current's american presidential administration choices concerning international trade. I dont need that. i dont want that. i want an example of simple, medieval/historical/fantasy that I can read/watch and learn terms and something I can turn into my own scene.