Slow Day at the Word Mine and Other Tragedies
Monday, February 6th, 2006 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI've sorta been ignoring the Gym Thing since early November. The gig at LL Bean didn't leave enough motivation, and then there was the trip to Colorado Springs, and, well, I just this morning went back.
Boy is somebody outta shape. It hardly seems fair: it takes so long to get into shape, and not very long at all to get out of shape. Ah, well, back to the thrice-weekly workouts, for me.
Not many words on The Nameless today, which I was finding exceptionally frustrating, until I realized why.
This bit here that I've been working on needs a whole lot of little worldbuilding details, all of which I needed to, um, hand-build on the spot. Which means that, while I wrote very little, I did a big chunk of thinking-out work for the rest of the story.
How many others worldbuild as they go? Or do y'all start out with a complete working knowledge of the story-universe you're working in?
Progress on the Novel Without a Name
Boy is somebody outta shape. It hardly seems fair: it takes so long to get into shape, and not very long at all to get out of shape. Ah, well, back to the thrice-weekly workouts, for me.
Not many words on The Nameless today, which I was finding exceptionally frustrating, until I realized why.
This bit here that I've been working on needs a whole lot of little worldbuilding details, all of which I needed to, um, hand-build on the spot. Which means that, while I wrote very little, I did a big chunk of thinking-out work for the rest of the story.
How many others worldbuild as they go? Or do y'all start out with a complete working knowledge of the story-universe you're working in?
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Date: 2006-02-06 08:38 pm (UTC)In my Dragon Nimbus series I just sort of built as I went along. Then I had to go back in 2nd, 5th, 10th drafts and make it all coherent, scrapped a lot, added more. Each book in the series builds the world a little more. 10th and for now the last book is as close to complete worldbuilding as I could get.
New series I did more up front stuff. We'll see if it has the same charm and sense of adventure for me.
Phyl