WIP & World-building
Jun. 6th, 2019 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sankseasTrying not to feel too bad about how little I've written in my WIPs, lately, because I have cleared some big (for me) hurdles in one of them! It's all world-building stuff, which I always found grossly intimidating. Will put the tips I figured out in a proper advice post, later. For now, I'm want to gush about that one WIP:
How do you handle world-building? Anything you're particularly excited to have thought up?
PROJECT BB – original, fairy tale, comic – 2nd draft, refining structure, polishing details!
[ Magic System ] Love to read 'em, hate to write to 'em :') mostly because I always feared I was ""too stupid"" to be able to write a good one. Turns out, I just needed to think of at a different angle. What I came up with was sweet and simple enough.
BB's magic is wielded through a person's (or creature's) personal focus - Mind, Body, Heart. That influences the what / how / why of their magic. It's nothing fancy, but whether a person (or creature) is more Thinking, Acting, or Feeling impacts their magic and reveals character so I'm pretty dang proud of that :'D Something simple that still lends a lot of potential to the story!!
[ History & Culture ] Again, big intimidation factor. But!! Read a few meta posts about stories with big in-universe histories (mostly LotR lol) and that helped me brake down how to think about writing up a fictional history & culture. Again, sweet and simple wins the race.
BB's world is a post-post-apocalyptic fairy tale setting. The apocalypse still influences the "now" of the story, but it's not the "now" - that's the trick of it. The past has impacted, lingered, and distorted through the years. The past was full of huge things, not just the "now." The past informs superstitions, traditions, settlements, traveling, etc. From the apocalypse, BB's world has certain fears, certain cautions, certain terms with certain context. It can all be shared through set dressing, shared phrases, little everyday rituals that only some start to question.
So, yeah, not feeling too bad about my other WIPs. Now that I've cracked the code, I expect writing (on each project) will go much more smoothly! Getting hype again!!!![ Magic System ] Love to read 'em, hate to write to 'em :') mostly because I always feared I was ""too stupid"" to be able to write a good one. Turns out, I just needed to think of at a different angle. What I came up with was sweet and simple enough.
BB's magic is wielded through a person's (or creature's) personal focus - Mind, Body, Heart. That influences the what / how / why of their magic. It's nothing fancy, but whether a person (or creature) is more Thinking, Acting, or Feeling impacts their magic and reveals character so I'm pretty dang proud of that :'D Something simple that still lends a lot of potential to the story!!
[ History & Culture ] Again, big intimidation factor. But!! Read a few meta posts about stories with big in-universe histories (mostly LotR lol) and that helped me brake down how to think about writing up a fictional history & culture. Again, sweet and simple wins the race.
BB's world is a post-post-apocalyptic fairy tale setting. The apocalypse still influences the "now" of the story, but it's not the "now" - that's the trick of it. The past has impacted, lingered, and distorted through the years. The past was full of huge things, not just the "now." The past informs superstitions, traditions, settlements, traveling, etc. From the apocalypse, BB's world has certain fears, certain cautions, certain terms with certain context. It can all be shared through set dressing, shared phrases, little everyday rituals that only some start to question.
How do you handle world-building? Anything you're particularly excited to have thought up?
