In which Sky shares her doings.

[cerulean_sky]

Clearly being out of school means I'm going to be updating my LJ more—and, apparently, my writing blog as well. I think this is a good thing. Any and all writing is a good thing, right?

1) New Post @ Forever Nevermore: Thought: World Building.

2) I made some icons out of J. Scott Campbell's Fairytale Fantasies series. If anyone wants them, you can download the whole pack of them here. Don't forget comment and credit if you snag/use!

Comments

[marielyuy.livejournal.com]

But then I read things like Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and Warbreaker.
Ooh, I haven't read those! I will look them up.

From a reader's perspective, my favorite world-building stories aren't necessarily as intricate as LOTR, but they had little believable details about the culture of the characters that made it different (but relateable) from our lives now, and that's what made it interesting.

My favorite examples would be Watership Down by Richard Adams--there was a whole fascinating culture of the rabbits that was created and revealed through terminology and story-telling within the book--and The Pit Dragon Trilogy by Jane Yolen, which had a whole society built around dragons and class differences (for the people). I liked that there wasn't a lot of unnecessary exposition of the history and structure of the world that beat you over the head, but that things were revealed in a matter-of-fact way as you read.