The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
So! Moving on. PDF here, in case you didn’t get it yet. Exercise (recap): As stated above. Settle on the overall mood for your story if you haven’t already. Look through your timeline, political groups, and language notes and mark for revision anything that doesn’t fit your mood. If you have time, revise those things. […]
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I’ve already done much of this, but I’ll post it in order to stay on course. Exercise: Listen to how different syllables sound to you. Do they excite you? Do you associate a particular sound with an emotion or place or memory? Write down some generic preferences for your languages– “I want the language spoken
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I have spent all day in a fog and I cannot brain. Day nine will come tomorrow–or I may stop the borrowed exercises and come up with my own. No promises, though. As I said in a comment on an earlier post, this system requires thinking big first, and that’s not me. My entire process
Day eight, economics and politics. Just as you examined your timeline for events and pressures, now examine your map for resources and deficits. For five minutes, make a few notes on the map to mark places that have more of a type of resource, and jot down anywhere that has a definite deficit of something
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One problem is that I’m not sure of any major civilizations. The Devastation pretty much knocked everyone on their asses–it’s taken three thousand years to crawl back out of the dark age, and the world isn’t a bunch of bordering nations anymore. It’s bits of civilization scattered across the face of the planet. So…skip the first question, if it’s not answered by the date of the Devastation.
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Day Six: Races. (Note: the site I’ve been using seems to be down, but you can get a PDF with the exercises and more here.) Spend 10 minutes figuring out what people who evolved in each major area of your world would look like. Then spend another 5 minutes asking “what if this group encountered that
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Day Five. So, today’s exercise is to draw out the physical contours of your map, and then identify at least three places that your people might live. You don’t need names for them yet– we’ll worry about names next week, when we give our people language. Just draw a dot on the map or maybe
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