unbotheredmuse:

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Cities I’m world building

America

Angeles

Delgon

Drygor (no longer inhabited)

Mystic Islands

Shymere

Theophilus

Verdeza

jamaicanblackcastoroil:

ciarakaye:

wakandamama:

WE MUST REMAIN STRONG LADIES🗣😩

I keep forgetting that Lupita is Mexican.

Her face was like “okay I can get down too”

westidia:

Was a SERVE the entire episode!

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frankiehagg:

worldbuilding: make a wiki

My writing is in its Upheaval Era™ (I used to write between 30k and 50k each month and now generally celebrate if I break 10k). This is a net good for my process, among other things because it means I play with tools and styles that I never did when preoccupied with wordcount. I write in Scrivener, create timelines in Scapple for each project (that’s for another post), and lately I’ve been playing with taking my wiki out of Scrivener and creating a separate one in Obsidian.

Obsidian is “knowledge base” freeware that uses markdown to link naturally between posts. If you’ve ever written a game in Twine, I’m finding it uses pretty much the same skillset. It looks, feels, and functions like a wiki. In my case it’s been great for identifying the areas of my world-building that are in need of development.

Suppose my story is science fiction about water acidification on a secondary world. I know the scene where my character finds this out: they’re trying to figure out how to cross the river when the bridge is out, and whether it’s worth trying to swim across. The river’s acidification has consequences for the character, but it also has consequences for the nation the river’s located in. If the nation loses access to potable water, it’s going to fall into social and political disarray very quickly.

This is as far as I got in my head, and leaves the river as kind of a plot device for our character’s trajectory more than something that exists independently in the world. I find this thinness an obstacle to being immersed in my own world, which makes it feel like my story isn’t going anywhere, which prevents me from writing.

Creating a wiki entry for the river ensures this key geographical feature has its own sense of history, and it forces me to consider how the people of the nation relate to it. This gives more fodder for understanding what the social and political landscape looks like… but as it turns out, it also helps me understand geography, economy, and plot better, too. In other words, building a wiki gives my world meaning by asking the questions required to build it from a concept into a place where people live.

Here’s an example of how writing a wiki page developed my understanding of the world at large.

The Acify River is…

HERE I PAUSED AND PANICKED. WHAT’S A RIVER AGAIN?

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cousinmarcus:

I’ve written like twelve thousand words of a Marvel fanfic

I’m so proud of myself for writing again

I’ve also been having a billion ideas for an original story

My imagination running wild

It’s actually 25000 words