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marycatelli) wrote2013-04-28 01:02 pm
marycatelli) wrote2013-04-28 01:02 pm
de-cluttering
There are kingdoms. Several of them, in fact. The heroine is traveling through four of them in a month. . .
And one starts to ponder why there aren't wars.
Even historical wars might be more clutter that the world can take, since even as back story they can draw attention. . . .
Hmm. . . hmm. . . hmm. . . oh yes, I've already got the spell. Perhaps Mercurio, capricious as he was, was nevertheless not unique. He just cast a big version of a spell that makes it much harder to invade a place than to defend it. Above and beyond the usual problems of invasion, that is. Which means it just slithers neatly into the world-building. . . .
Perhaps I can have a rebellious lord trying to compartmentalize his land with that spell. It will give me an excuse to info-dump and the world a little background.
It can be fun, finding things abruptly fitting together. 0:)
And one starts to ponder why there aren't wars.
Even historical wars might be more clutter that the world can take, since even as back story they can draw attention. . . .
Hmm. . . hmm. . . hmm. . . oh yes, I've already got the spell. Perhaps Mercurio, capricious as he was, was nevertheless not unique. He just cast a big version of a spell that makes it much harder to invade a place than to defend it. Above and beyond the usual problems of invasion, that is. Which means it just slithers neatly into the world-building. . . .
Perhaps I can have a rebellious lord trying to compartmentalize his land with that spell. It will give me an excuse to info-dump and the world a little background.
It can be fun, finding things abruptly fitting together. 0:)
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Sometimes world-building actually gets in the way of telling the story itself.
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The real horror is when your story needs an element that will eat your story entirely, because the world-building is so extensive.