lyricality: (lumpy sort of fluff thing)
Hello all! Day 2! And for everyone who asked, all the World Building exercises can be found here (click Fantasy World-Builder's Guide, then World Building Exercises at the bottom). Another big thank you to [livejournal.com profile] andersenmon, who showed them to me in the first place. They were originally posted on the Nanowrimo forums.

Exercise: What role do you anticipate weather playing in your story? Do you have a lot of travel that you want to complicate with bad storms? Are you going to snow in your mighty heroes? Will there be a mighty battle, determined by sudden flooding? You actually don't need to know right now. Your exerise for today is to jot down ten plot devices that relate to weather, and what you think they do to the story (for example: a snow-in can turn the mood very claustrophobic... or very intimate).

Ten Plot Devices... )

In other news, I've been doing some contract work for my former employer. Yey. It doesn't pay much more than unemployment does, ironically, but who cares! It will extend my benefits, anyway, and I'm glad to be doing some sort of work again. There's also a chance that the workforce center here will pay for training, so that I can learn Flash-based web design, which would be a huge help in finding a position locally. We'll see how things go.

I expect that what I really need to do to help my life fall back into some sort of order is go to bed at a reasonable hour, and get up earlier. ...Also I need to remember what day it is despite holidays, because I just realized that I forgot to make Vianne's dinner post on TR. *headdesk* I lose.
lyricality: (Nicodemus)
My friend [livejournal.com profile] andersenmom sent me this truly wonderful article called "Thirty Days of World Building," meant for the use of writers creating fictional worlds. It already feels extremely helpful, and to keep myself on task, I'll do my best to post each exercise each day. (For those of you who do not care...don't worry, they'll be lj cut.)

First exercise: The first fifteen minute exercise is to write down all the different climates you can think of-- if you need to just say a city name, do it. Sometimes "Seattle" is more evocative than "northern damp temperate climate." Write these names down in a list.

Then, go through that list and write one or two words that describe how that climate, either the word itself or the way the place itself may have made you feel, if you've been there before. Try to stick to abstract adjectives; emotional words, if you can, but nouns are also okay.


The List... )

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