There’s something about writing settings where magic and tech co-exist that I just love. So many possibilities for them compliment each other, to work together where one fuels the other or otherwise joins hands into becoming magic-tech, or just the fact that low-tech and high-magic are somehow seen as the norm. I’ve had readers be… Read More Having tech and magic coexist in your worldbuilding
There it is again, the question if I need to split Blood Maiden or not. It’s not the first time I ponder this, and that little fact gives the question all the more weight. So far the book seems to still work even though I’ve been keeping out info. Deciding what lore to include and… Read More Progress Update W22: Blood Maiden and Splitting Novels
This past week has been eventful, in a good way, thankfully. Birthdays, a job interview, and some nice progress on writing my Blood Maiden WIP. Have even been thinking about picking up drawing again, but it’s still…hard, to get started. I guess I didn’t stop for nothing, but I’d like to break the cycle. For… Read More Progress Update W20: Blood Maiden and Worldbuilding Impact of Culture on Magic Systems
Ajj, now I really want to talk about exposition. I’m a worldbuilding nerd. I write a lot of high fantasy. We all have our own preferences in our reading. Some love rich worldbuilding, some need it to be just enough to support the story. This might influence which subgenres of fantasy one might read, but… Read More Building Worlds: Exposition & infodumps
So I’d been struggling with infrastructure in my current setting for a while now. How characters get from point A to B isn’t always important and honestly, often times it can work best to leave most of the details out because they don’t matter. But sometimes they do. Sometimes I just don’t know yet, because… Read More Building Worlds: A brief look at infrastructure
I’ve been working on my worldbuilding for the same world for a couple of years now. It evolved from another WIP I never finished and ended up shelving after trying to rewrite it several times. I just wasn’t ready for it I think, but because of it, I do have this universe now. I have… Read More Some tips on worldbuilding
As a speculative fiction writer worldbuilding is a pretty big chunk of my work as I work on my WIPs. Thankfully worldbuilding is a passion of mine. I love thinking up systems, cultures, histories, and more and see how they influence each other. I spend a lot of my time documenting the many ideas that… Read More Building Worlds