RE: Wednesday World-building Workshop Part 3
Hahaha yeah, you basically have a post going on over there. Feel free to tag me in on it then! :P
Worldbuilding applies to sci-fi as much as it does to fantasy. Its all about whether or not your plot exists inside a world of substance or if everything else exists just as supports to lean on the plot.
The latter are like having the crowd and anything else besides the main characters be like rows of cardboard cutouts that are lined on the side of the action like an old PS1/2 game.
I have actually done a couple exercises and asked people to ask me questions about my world. I also have a large cast of named characters, of these there are a lot of them that are well defined. So much so that if I gave you a list of 70 characters, you pick a number then you can ask me just about anything about them. I should have an answer!
True, you have a point.
I do suggest it gets rather hard once you start having hundreds of characters. Each developing and having his own part to play. I think of Tolkien's Silmarillion, or Bodhisattva Toge's cast of thousands.
I may try doing a world building post myself.
Cintiq + Mischief = FUN POTENTIAL for this sort of thing, thanks to the infinite zoom on an infinite canvas. That's what I'm now thinking.
Yeah. World of Kedra has 400+ characters and expanding. There is still plenty holes that I created for myself that I would like to complete before I can feel satisfied.
Tolkien was definitely one of my biggest inspirations.
BTW, if you're planning on writing a story in your world, and you'd like to get artists to illustrate it, I'm organizing a group here for that. The idea is that more or less professionally illustrated posts of the light novel type might do better on this platform, on average, than individually posted illustrations or fictional texts alone. (It seems the organized do best on here.) After talking on Discord and comments, I just made a post with a single obscure tag so that artists and writers might later discuss that sort of thing in one place directly on Steemit without spoiling upcoming posts for their audiences. I'm currently talking, mostly with B&W artists; some have shown interest.
I would totally be interested in this. I have character profiles with enough detail and even some amateurish sketches to start them off.
Want to add me on Discord? WulfenZA #7488
Tried adding, but it says something is wrong. Is the number and spelling correct?
It is definitely the right spelling. Ceck for me in PAL or Writer's Block