Worldbuilding

Well you care to elaborate? Do you have any experience with it? Frankly I gave up writing a long time ago cause I could never really get the hang of it. Are you supposed to outline every general thought of each Chapter? How do you fit in creative processes like Worldbuilding and Plot Devices if you are just free writing you know? Like sometimes I would just go to my laptop open up my word editor and just start typing. I don't want to have to subscribe to any ridgid rule or form. I just want to write.
 
ClearSky said:
Well you care to elaborate? Do you have any experience with it? Frankly I gave up writing a long time ago cause I could never really get the hang of it. Are you supposed to outline every general thought of each Chapter? How do you fit in creative processes like Worldbuilding and Plot Devices if you are just free writing you know? Like sometimes I would just go to my laptop open up my word editor and just start typing. I don't want to have to subscribe to any ridgid rule or form. I just want to write.
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I'm with you there. Clear Sky. I prefer to write non-fiction anyway, but some people draw up rules and forms for that as well. I like to allow my writing to flow, and then organise it so that it reads more professionally. If I'm trying to work to some sort of 'writing recipe,' I'm invariably unhappy with the result.

This whole construct of 'worldbuilding' seems to go against real creativity, as far as I'm concerned, although I can see it would work well in fantasy or science fiction writing.

Wheely - it would be good to have something more to respond to than a sentence and a link. What is your experience with this, if any? Do you go along with the article, or disagree with it? Please try and give us more to go on next time.
 
Worldbuilding seems that it would require a lot of patience. This is something I need to work on so perhaps I should put my hand to this. I have been watching Game of Thrones with my husband recently and really want to read the books now. I love how the world the story is set in is all constructed from bits and pieces of history and myth. I want to compare the description of the world in the books to the interpretation HBO brought to the story.
 
Ahh, if it isn't worldbuilding. To tell you the truth, I'm not the best at this, and I do wish I was. But only practice makes perfect, am I not right?

RHarber said:
Worldbuilding seems that it would require a lot of patience. This is something I need to work on so perhaps I should put my hand to this. I have been watching Game of Thrones with my husband recently and really want to read the books now. I love how the world the story is set in is all constructed from bits and pieces of history and myth. I want to compare the description of the world in the books to the interpretation HBO brought to the story.
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As to the game of thrones post above, I totally agree with you! After watching it a few times at my friends house, I decided that I would also like to start reading it as well! This TV show is great! Now I just got to get myself to go out and get the book! Not only is that motivation to help with worldbuilding but also it could give me an idea on how to do so.
 
Patience, unfortunately, isn't one of my strengths. I have heard of Game of Thrones, but haven't delved too much into it as of yet. I think that if I were to see it I would probably be able to wrap my mind around the concept of worldbuilding.
 
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