How to Make Your Fantasy World Feel Real: 6 Pillars of Organic Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding satisfies the desire to “be a real maker,” J.R.R. Tolkien remarked in his 1947 essay “On Fairy Stories.” The creator should “hope that he is drawing on reality,” for the qualities of the world should aim to capture some truth, some essence of reality.
terry nguyen • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 1
Desire is actually magic, as far as I've seen. I can't count how many times I've watched people hone and shape and pour time and energy into their desires, only to have that desire appear in their life through weird, non-linear, frankly baffling ways — ways that include but don’t easily reduce to the work they’ve put in. The stream of creation seem... See more
Varieties of Desirous Experience
It’s not good enough to just string together a bunch of clever ideas, for the effort required is fundamentally different. Lies must be layered upon lies to create a thoroughly believable fake world. It’s an imaginary world, but it should seem to actually exist as an alternate world, and the people who live there should appear to think and act in a
... See moreHayao Miyazaki • Starting Point: 1979-1996
“I have a practice of keeping online ‘notebooks.’ But before I arrived to this helpful metaphor, I felt this intense pressure to have a ‘single place online where all my writing exists.’ Once I decided this didn’t need to be true for me, and that my writing was actually better because it was formed in a particular and specific world, I was able to feel confident in creating separate, disparate worlds that would eventually symbiotically coexist to create a broader whole.” On Writing & Worlding — Part 1 of 2 Read: https://anotherdayinthedome.substack.com/p/on-writing-and-worlding-part-1-of Sources: https://www.are.na/laurel-schwulst/on-writing-and-worlding
instagram.comMore recently, the concept of “worldbuilding” has come to the fore. The term describes the creation of fictional worlds with unique settings, histories, aesthetics, and characters. Our franchise-dominated media environment is rife with worlds and extended universes, straddling the physical and the virtual, the fictional and the real. There is a pal... See more
terry nguyen • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 1
