This is all really fantastic advice. As someone getting into writing stories for the first time the process of world building has been pretty daunting. I'm writing and drawing my own comic and the balance of fat/lean meat is a hard one to strike. Like adding too much is annoying, but so is having unanswered questions. Hell I like learning new little useless facts about the world's I read about. I guess the only advice I have, at least as a fantasy writer, is to not be afraid to ask "why not?" To your ideas. A lot of the beginning of my writing and drawing journey was bogged down by "why does my world need this" which is a very important question to answer. But for some things, I feel it's both fun and intriguing to have a few "why nots" in there. Like in my setting the moon and sun are giant glowing jewels in the sky, spawned front a great calamity that happened eons ago. Does this impact the story a ton? Right now, no, but I mean it's a cool idea to me and it doesn't hinder the story. So why not?
Yes! Exactly this! Not every scrap has to be relevant as long as it doesn't slow down or detract from your story. But I agree, fantasy is about the world building for me! I'm glad this was helpful or valid for you! Thank you!
Great video! Thankfully I don’t struggle with world builders disease, and I think the biggest thing that helps me is keeping the information relevant and restricted to the narrative. I regularly ask myself if the MC would know or care about something like the politics and the answer is generally no - so I might make a note of a timeline of who’s in power when etc but otherwise that doesn’t make it into the book. Does leaving out a specific detail lead the reader to be confused? No? Does adding it enrich the layers of the narrative? No? Then it doesn’t need to be there.
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This is all really fantastic advice. As someone getting into writing stories for the first time the process of world building has been pretty daunting. I'm writing and drawing my own comic and the balance of fat/lean meat is a hard one to strike. Like adding too much is annoying, but so is having unanswered questions. Hell I like learning new little useless facts about the world's I read about.
I guess the only advice I have, at least as a fantasy writer, is to not be afraid to ask "why not?" To your ideas. A lot of the beginning of my writing and drawing journey was bogged down by "why does my world need this" which is a very important question to answer. But for some things, I feel it's both fun and intriguing to have a few "why nots" in there. Like in my setting the moon and sun are giant glowing jewels in the sky, spawned front a great calamity that happened eons ago. Does this impact the story a ton? Right now, no, but I mean it's a cool idea to me and it doesn't hinder the story. So why not?
Yes! Exactly this! Not every scrap has to be relevant as long as it doesn't slow down or detract from your story. But I agree, fantasy is about the world building for me! I'm glad this was helpful or valid for you! Thank you!
Great video! Thankfully I don’t struggle with world builders disease, and I think the biggest thing that helps me is keeping the information relevant and restricted to the narrative. I regularly ask myself if the MC would know or care about something like the politics and the answer is generally no - so I might make a note of a timeline of who’s in power when etc but otherwise that doesn’t make it into the book. Does leaving out a specific detail lead the reader to be confused? No? Does adding it enrich the layers of the narrative? No? Then it doesn’t need to be there.
Ooo yaass I love those questions! Thank you!
World building is the best because not everything you create will be seen by the reader.