30 days of Writing: #12, 13, 14
Sep. 13th, 2010 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathriel12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
World building... hmm... I think again it would have to be The Lotus Children series. It's the only one that required much world building to begin with, and for the most part I think I did a good job. Especially with the people from Praja, who were all kinds of awesome. A race of warriors, acetics, hunters, with all kinds of merciless traditions. And yet remarkably peaceful.
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
This is going to sound lame, but regular American culture is my favorite to write. Probably because I know it best, and it's easy to get into and see where things restrict and where things allow. My culture is the one I can see all the problems with, as well as the good things, and it's what gives me fodder for fiction on a daily basis. I like to play around and make up worlds of imagine different scenarios in different cultures from what little I know, but I always feel my information is incomplete. One day I'll have the balls to do massive research and writer something non-Western Civ.
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
I've never had the need to, honestly. I have a general sense of location in my head, and I think it translates well enough onto the page that a map would be superfluous.
World building... hmm... I think again it would have to be The Lotus Children series. It's the only one that required much world building to begin with, and for the most part I think I did a good job. Especially with the people from Praja, who were all kinds of awesome. A race of warriors, acetics, hunters, with all kinds of merciless traditions. And yet remarkably peaceful.
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
This is going to sound lame, but regular American culture is my favorite to write. Probably because I know it best, and it's easy to get into and see where things restrict and where things allow. My culture is the one I can see all the problems with, as well as the good things, and it's what gives me fodder for fiction on a daily basis. I like to play around and make up worlds of imagine different scenarios in different cultures from what little I know, but I always feel my information is incomplete. One day I'll have the balls to do massive research and writer something non-Western Civ.
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
I've never had the need to, honestly. I have a general sense of location in my head, and I think it translates well enough onto the page that a map would be superfluous.
