Slow Day at the Word Mine and Other Tragedies

[rolanni]

I'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

25,017 / 98,000 (25.5%)

Comments

[ramblin-phyl.livejournal.com]

Oh, Rolanni, been there, done that, don't reccomend it.

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

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It's a mix for me. I tend to know the big details, but not the smaller ones. For instance in the current WiP (book 2 in the series) I had to pause and figure out the funeral customs before I could write those scenes.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

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?

Some of both--my characters are often taking right turns and around the corner is a TUSS (Totally Unknown Sector of Space (TM).)

I usually know a lot of the big things that will happen in a story, but small things that can become big, those I find out as I go along.