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femgenficathon deadline has been extended to August 15th. I am very grateful, as my fic is refusing to coalesce, and also my brain is refusing to think about anything other than heavy-duty world-building for Firsthome. As in:
1. I am trying to write an overview world history starting from the evolution of humanity and how they spread over the continents, including stuff like language groups, racial distribution, large population migrations and conquests, and so on and so forth. I need a history of science & technology, a history of military development, a history of trade and agriculture, a history of economics and economic theories, a history of religion -- all kinds of stuff like that.
2. I am also taking some bits and pieces of stuff I've said about the history of Estara over the years (...okay, so that stuff is mostly a children's song about four historical figures that's used as a basis for a kind of freeze-tag game; yes, I'm weird; this is not news) and fleshing them out by way of turning historical figures into actual people with actual lives, and consequently running into the slight problem of knowing really damn little about the sexual mores of Estaria and how they vary from region to region and era to era. So I'm trying to fix that.
3. I am trying to make Eloriel sin Ulan's creation of a new religion make a little more real-world sense, which is giving me the nagging feeling that I really need to go find good biographies of religious leaders (starting with Muhammad, who is the closest parallel I can think of offhand), and read up on Hinduism (and maybe Jainism and Sikhism) as well. And I need to brush up on the founding of Tenochtitlan, because that is relevant as well.
Anyway, this is all fascinating and fun (even when it makes me want to tear my hair out), but while laying background makes it easier to write future stories (and also improves the quality of said future stories), it doesn't produce a lot of obvious results here and now. Which is kind of frustrating.
...
I think I am going to try writing some 15-minute fics now. We shall see if I get anywhere.
femgenficathon deadline has been extended to August 15th. I am very grateful, as my fic is refusing to coalesce, and also my brain is refusing to think about anything other than heavy-duty world-building for Firsthome. As in:1. I am trying to write an overview world history starting from the evolution of humanity and how they spread over the continents, including stuff like language groups, racial distribution, large population migrations and conquests, and so on and so forth. I need a history of science & technology, a history of military development, a history of trade and agriculture, a history of economics and economic theories, a history of religion -- all kinds of stuff like that.
2. I am also taking some bits and pieces of stuff I've said about the history of Estara over the years (...okay, so that stuff is mostly a children's song about four historical figures that's used as a basis for a kind of freeze-tag game; yes, I'm weird; this is not news) and fleshing them out by way of turning historical figures into actual people with actual lives, and consequently running into the slight problem of knowing really damn little about the sexual mores of Estaria and how they vary from region to region and era to era. So I'm trying to fix that.
3. I am trying to make Eloriel sin Ulan's creation of a new religion make a little more real-world sense, which is giving me the nagging feeling that I really need to go find good biographies of religious leaders (starting with Muhammad, who is the closest parallel I can think of offhand), and read up on Hinduism (and maybe Jainism and Sikhism) as well. And I need to brush up on the founding of Tenochtitlan, because that is relevant as well.
Anyway, this is all fascinating and fun (even when it makes me want to tear my hair out), but while laying background makes it easier to write future stories (and also improves the quality of said future stories), it doesn't produce a lot of obvious results here and now. Which is kind of frustrating.
...
I think I am going to try writing some 15-minute fics now. We shall see if I get anywhere.
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Date: 2010-08-01 11:17 am (UTC)One day, I'm going to read your Firsthome stories. The snippets of worldbuilding I've read sound so interesting and... well, live-like.
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Date: 2010-08-02 02:25 am (UTC)I try to make all my secondary worlds feel like places real people could live in, but I admit I often fall short of that ideal. Firsthome probably feels the most solid, if only because I've spent the most time on it -- about fifteen years now -- and because I didn't create it around any single novel-length story, which means it sprawls more convincingly.