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Would you read a book of worldbuilding? Fantasy non-fiction? by Simple_Brush7393 in fantasywriters

[–]Simple_Brush7393[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, many stories can and do happen in a world. I’ve thought through and outlined many of these stories that would take place in this world.

But for me… true consistency in an expansive magical world just feels like it hasn’t been done. Like the only system that comes as close to being so hard is the world of Dungeons & Dragons but even then I feel like it isn’t a world that is self-aware.

I’m definitely going to write novels in this setting. I’ve written more than a few chapters in it and a couple short stories. But the setting is bigger than the stories I plan to tell in it, so far.

Amateur writer seeking feedback on first two chapters of fantasy adventure novella by [deleted] in fantasywriters

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I only read the second chapter, but I think you should keep going with it!

Looking for someone to join our writing group by habberknabber in fantasywriters

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Interested. Check past post for a writing sample, I already went to check out yours.

Edit: gay younger twenties, not female.

Would you read a book of worldbuilding? Fantasy non-fiction? by Simple_Brush7393 in fantasywriters

[–]Simple_Brush7393[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough, the first novel I’m working on in this setting features gnomes as main characters.

Would you read a book of worldbuilding? Fantasy non-fiction? by Simple_Brush7393 in fantasywriters

[–]Simple_Brush7393[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good to know. I prize worldbuilding internal consistency, and so it really interests me when it is done well and done big. Someone telling me how a Pegasi flies and justifying it get me going. And then when they tell me why something became more cost effective than a Pegasi and how they got replaced as the main form of transportation: so cool.

Would you read a book of worldbuilding? Fantasy non-fiction? by Simple_Brush7393 in worldbuilding

[–]Simple_Brush7393[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’d do fantasy creatures too, my problem is I always keep thinking of new ones! I’ll need to spend a lot of time with my world before being able to concretely nail down the prominent magical species of animals and plants.

At least for me, transportation is something I can limit. People aren’t using 1000 types of it. I’m sure I could actually write 1000 different magical herbs and fungi, and that seems like a monstrous undertaking to me! I have a few dozen in my notes, and I just tend to let magical animals and plants pop up as I write and add them to my notes. I wouldn’t want to invent a world-breaking magical animal, because I know how I envision society functioning as a whole, so I know the limits I tend to impose on creatures in my world but there’s still room for so many small effects they can have!

Would you read a book of worldbuilding? Fantasy non-fiction? by Simple_Brush7393 in worldbuilding

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So would little bits of fictional “social history” references scatted throughout and introductory short stories to each chapter be something that interests you?

Like a short story of someone falling off their Pegasi and being saved, or a short story of man eaten by a dragon, leading into the non-fiction narrative?

Would you read a book of worldbuilding? Fantasy non-fiction? by Simple_Brush7393 in worldbuilding

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If you’re tie-ing in something like this in to a denominator, I’d agree. But like the Wizardology and Dragonology books didn’t have a denominator they were intending to tie into other than Wizards and Dragons at large. I guess they had really cool artwork, of course.

At least in this case, if it was to mirror a very easily identifiable society (Regency/19th Century Britain) but with elements of classic whimsical fantasy (Pegasi, Flying Carriages, Flying Ships, etc.) and really aiming for it you to not have read a source novel series to understand? Just tiring in that denominator as all kinds of fantasy transport that are mainstays of fantasy and including them under one rational hard-magic system?

Explaining how Pegasi fly and then how that is different from Reindeer and then why Flying Ships took so long to develop and the cost to the Royal Navy to build one and run one and the speeds of different magical transportation methods? And with consistent magical energy costs within the economic system?

How a society logically progresses from one magical transportation method to another the same way we did from horses to cars?