The author shares a work in progress featuring Captain Dumont in a lavishly furnished apartment. The setting establishes a sci-fi world and characters. Despite luxury, Dumont’s behavior raises concerns, prompting analysis of the crew’s psychological state. The opening sets the stage for character-driven conflict and hints at a larger, complex narrative. Read on for more developments.
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World Building (pt 10) – Another Example
The story unfolds in a post-war era where Earth and Mars are rebuilding through trade. Tensions arise between those valuing Earth’s traditional tech and others seeking Mars’ innovations for progress. This conflict raises ethical dilemmas, showcasing the complexities of political dynamics, differing technologies, and moral perspectives in a bustling futuristic cityscape.
World Building (pt 9) – Pulling it Together
World building is a crucial aspect of storytelling, impacting characters and the narrative. By developing culture, laws, politics, geography, and mythology, writers can create rich, believable worlds. In an example scene at a bustling market square, elements of the world are integrated, demonstrating how they can enhance storytelling. This exercise can inspire your own world-building endeavors.
World Building (pt 8) – Brick by Brick
Incorporating technology and infrastructure enriches fantasy settings. Establish foundational systems, introduce advanced technology, balance magic, and explore societal impacts. Create a living world that engages readers with rich storytelling and character development. This approach adds depth, complexity, and immersion to fantasy settings by examining their societal functions and implications on culture, politics, and daily life.
World Building (pt 7) – It’s Magic!
This post explores crafting magical systems and fantastical elements in fantasy writing to captivate readers and elevate world building. It discusses defining rules of magic, designing creatures, developing spells and items, balancing magical power, introducing mysteries and secrets, establishing consequences, creating a magical cosmos, and balancing realism and fantasy for a rich and engaging setting.
World Building (pt 6) – Landscapes & Geography
Landscapes and geography play a crucial role in crafting a captivating fictional world. Elements like identifying key geographic features, designing biomes, creating terrain variety, and considering the impact on human settlement and conflicts are essential. Incorporating these features adds depth and richness to the world, resonating with readers and enhancing the storytelling experience.
Challenge and Response
This post challenges readers to explore the economic and political aspects of their favorite stories. Using “The Hobbit” and “Lord of the Rings” as an example, it delves into how Hobbits’ self-sufficient economy and fear of the unknown influence their political structure, contrasting it with the centralized monarchy of the Dwarves. Opportunities for plot conflicts and creative storytelling emerge from comparing these cultures.
World Building (pt 4) – Politics & Economics
The post discusses the link between politics, economics, and world-building, using examples of monarchies and the Islamic Caliphate to illustrate how political structures influence economic growth. It emphasizes the importance of stability in political structures and suggests exploring the reasons behind seeking stability. It also highlights the significance of economic systems in world-building, teasing the upcoming post on building an economy.
World Building (pt 3) – Laws, Ethics, and Morality
The importance of creating a captivating cosmology and mythology for worldbuilding was discussed in the previous blog post. Now, the focus shifts to establishing laws, ethics, and morality to create a robust social structure in the story. This includes creating legal systems, defining moral frameworks, and exploring the interplay with other worldbuilding elements to engage readers emotionally.
World building: an aside
The author discusses the challenge of world building for a story, emphasizing the importance of understanding how much and when to develop the world. Drawing from personal experience, they recommend starting with high-level world building using the Five Why’s technique to create a consistent world for characters. The narrative example from “Cosimo” illustrates this process.
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