Alasdair and I world build nearly every day. He writes his world into a lined A4 hardovered exercise book. I use a huge visual diary. We follow, to our best ability, the wonderful questions posted here
The word consistency is the key. Build your world consistently - each day add something, think of something, note it down. This is not a task to tackle in an ad hoc fashion, for me, at least. I'm finding that because I'm doing a little each day, I'm seeing the world more and more clearly.
The Girl-child has agreed to draw my characters.
The Accountant has kind of agreed to draw my map.
We'll see where all this gets us.
In the meantime it is definitely a pool day.
A blog where I talk about the reading, writing, post the Tuesday Poem and, sometimes, show some knitting.
3 comments:
Hi Jo,
Sorry about the poetry class. It was disappointing. Go on - tell me your ten - or twenty - top books.
Catherine
Hey Jo, you know what could be sort of interesting (as a woman?) is a list of the books that influenced your sense of style/fashion/dress -
that biography of Ottoline Morrell
Women in Love, D H - the descriptions of the coloured stockings,
Claudine, definitely Claudine - I even owned a couple of dresses once that I secretly thought of as being v. Claudine.
Anais Nin's costumes. Her descriptions of June Miller's clothes - well, just Nin's sheer awareness of clothes was amazing. I can remember deliberately setting out in my journal, a la Nin, to describe a pair of laceup grecian sandals I had bought...
You know, most of the better worldbuilding I've done has been in my head and mulled over for weeks before I wrote anything down...
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