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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-11-15 04:07 pm

[ SECRET POST #3238 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3238 ⌋

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Re: Writers: World-building and character designing

(Anonymous) 2015-11-15 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I probably should plan things out more but mostly I make it up as I go along. I might sketch out a rough map, but I'm a terrible artist and it's really just a reference point. If there's say, a room or a building that's prominently featured, I might draw its layout so I can better imagine how characters move around in it during a scene.

For realistic details, I try to maintain a logical structure in my universe like there is for the real world. So... a peasant who lives out in the middle of nowhere in a tiny village isn't going to have a very rich or varied diet. They're going to need to spend a significant amount of their day either farming, dealing with livestock and/or some combination of hunting/foraging with less time foe leisure activities. Their house will be very small and probably somewhat primitive. Their clothing will be practical, not new, and they won't have more than one or two outfits. They might not even have a horse, unless it's a plough horse. Etc. etc.

Basically I keep real world rules for How Stuff Works in mind when I write my fictional ones.