I have a love/hate relationship with World Building. It’s a brilliant puzzle but it’s also a nightmare when your world gets too big for you to sort out all the information in your head or even through a journal. To help with this, I started drawing. I’m not great at it but the images help…
Thanks to all your awesome comments to the post Can’t. See. Story, I now have no trouble picturing my world. Characters None of my characters are human and all have an unusual collection of features like dark skin, bright red eyes with thick bright white hair. It’s unlikely I’ll come across anyone who looks like that. To…
Ever had a moment where you loved the overall idea of your scene or blog post but hated the way it was worded? No matter how long you stared at the page- moving sentences, adding and deleting words- you couldn’t figure out a way to fix it. I’ve been writing and rewriting a blog post…
Good thing I enjoy world Building. Developing a society is about as difficult as figuring out how Magic works. Usually, there’s more than one society and if they all function alike, it needs to be for really good reason. These sites helped me a lot:Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds: Day 6: Let Us Make Man in Our Image: Anthropology…
For the moment, I’ve stopped working on my second novel, as often, to focus on filling the holes in my world. I’m finding Powers to be the hardest part of World Building. It’s so complicated. I’ve been trying to find some way of organizing information to help me visualize it. Outside of putting it on…
According to Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, when mapping out the history of your Fantasy world you should think about: “How far back are there records or tales of historical events? How widely known are these stories? Do average people believe old tales, or do they dismiss some that have a basis in fact (e.g.,…
How do you organize the chaos of your own mind? I generally don’t since I’m really good at multi-tasking. But, I have a lot of projects to plan- job hunting, getting Certificates in Editing and Graphic Design, working on my second novel, to name a few. The brain warehouse became cluttered and everything was screaming at me…
Writers grow up but our imagination doesn’t. It can’t really. What if we have a POV character that’s a horrible human being? The only way to portray them realistically is by diving into our imagination. Unless you really are a villain 😉 We can’t be everything but with research and a deep well of imagination, we can portray…
You’d think after writing and reading for so many years, writing a novel would get easier. It doesn’t, at least for me. I should’t have expected it to. I like to experiment with my stories- with format, with character relationships with their abilities. It’s fun but it creates entertaining problems. Back to the world building journal. The second novel in…
I don’t usually read my story notes. They simply help my mind iron out parts of my story- you know- the world, characters’ motivations and personalities. I remember best when I write things down so, I never felt any need to read these notes. Mistake. While rereading my work-in-progress, I realized I didn’t have a good handle…
