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Yes. Worldbuilding is my favorite thing in writing, and I can't do it at all. I mean, I have some fictional worlds created in my head, fully fleshed out even. But I can't write them at all.

I sometimes get stuck in the transition between worldbuilding and plot. I have a really great world with a great premise, but I'm still struggling to make a story happen there...
I fucking love worldbuilding, though. I could do it for hours.

I like to try to find the personal stories within the big timeline and the interactions of countries and institutions and everything. So I have an interesting religion, now let's zoom in and look at the problems one individual in that church deals with and what they think of the schism that's threatening to form. Here's a war, how is it affecting a person from this group of people in this city?

//nodnod
Yeah, that's definitely the theory, but sometimes I struggle to find the specific people whose stories I care about and who bring out the coolness of the world.

On the other hand, then I have stories (like the one I'm tentatively considering for NaNo), where I have a main character who is fun, I have a vague outline, but I'm stumped on the magic system. Boo.

You can't find a way to fit some other ideas you have for magic systems into that outline? That's another thing I do a lot. I take all the random bits of ideas I have and try crashing a bunch of them into each other until I find something that makes some pretty fireworks. I love when I find a way to make two things that originally had nothing to do with each other fit together so well that it seems like they were meant to be connected in the first place.

Yeah, it's the best when that works out! I've managed to do that a few times, though those stories haven't quite reached... ripeness for writing, I guess.
But this one just doesn't connect with anything I've done previously.
I mean I've got this guy who suddenly found out he can fly, and he was a graverobber, and the nobles and such would bury their dead in ruins of the Ancients or whatever, so I think this is all somehow connected, but I'm not really managing to wrangle it yet. I need to sit and make a proper effort at this.
I'm feeling like I want something weird and slightly macabre, but not all the way grimdark or necromancy.

It sounds like you'll have something pretty cool once you get it sorted out. I wish you luck on that.

Yeah. I actually wrote a few pages which were based on an extraordinarily logically-plotted dream, which explains some of the odd elements, but I do love it. Now I just need to figure the world out...

Ugh, you know who's great with magic systems? Brandon Sanderson. I wish I could consult with him, haha.

I haven't gotten around to reading any of his stuff yet. I should.

Magic systems have been one of my favorite things to think about lately. I've been thinking of all different sources and ways of accessing it and how different societies might come up with different ways of using it based on coming to different conclusions about how it works and specific innovations that come about at different times and ahh so much fun! :D

Oh, yes, variable magic systems in different areas is interesting.
The books Graceling and its "sequels" did that, though there it actually felt more mushed-together than really a solid combined system. It would be interesting to try and have the magic have a same basic grounding, but very different applications to it.
Of course, then you'd also have the question, is there something preventing people from using another system? Maybe each one "cuts" a kind of groove in the brain while using, and thus a user of one system becomes incompatible with the others (until you find people who manage to cross over, of course...).

I also get hung up on terminology sometimes. I've seen stuff that is written 100% in a different "dialect", which is so exhausting on one hand, but on the other hand it's probably the most 'authentic' telling of a different culture...

I love worldbuilding so much. I really need to get to the point where I'm ready to show off my worlds.

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