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June’s World Building Cheat Sheet
The New & Improved version
Part One: History
Part Two: Lightweight conlang
Part Three: Pwease build me a culture
Part Four: Devil Worship but not really because it’s fantasy.
Part Five: Let’s get political
Part Six: Fashion History and YOU
Part Seven: DON’T check your biases
Part Eight: Because I didn’t get political enough last time
Part Nine: Multicultural
Part Ten: Positivity from a Negative Nelly
Bonus Rants & Musings
1950s Housewife
Historical Inaccuracy + Plot Devices
Gender Roles in Fiction
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Writeblr PSA
PUT YOUR WRITING UNDER A READ MORE IF YOU POST IT ON TUMBLR!!!!
If you don’t, any reblogs will still have the writing if you ever delete it. Using a read more is just a little bit of protection in case you ever need to delete the writing/excerpt. It’s just a nice bit of security to have.
If you’re on mobile, you can type “:readmore:” in order to get a read more if you didn’t know that already!
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WRITING RESEARCH: BOOK COVERS
Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 10:00 AM PST on Twitch
What's in a book cover? Join me as I hop through the biggest new releases on GoodReads and talk about what you can take away as both a reader and a writer. We'll be live about an hour touring some books I've never seen before to see whether I (and you!) can guess genre, tone, and more from a book cover alone. Thanks to OHHOW for sponsoring this one with the theme 'writing research'!
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Bonus: I go full Kat Blaque on a Romance novel cover.
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today i learned you can download all of wikipedia to a $20 flashdrive on a keychain and still have room for all the books you're writing
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Do you like the name ‘Auramancer’ as a term to call my mages? Does it sound interesting? 🤔
They’re essentially mages and are capable of performing magic in my universe. If you’ve been following any of my posts lately you’ll see that I’ve been obsessively working out the magic system for one of my WIPs. It’s been a super fun but somewhat frustrating journey! This WIP has honestly changed from a fantasy story set in modern times but has evolved into a science fantasy (which I LOVE reading and writing about. I call it Scifantasy or SciFantasy, hehe).
Anyways, I went from calling my mages ‘mages’ to calling them espers, then auramancers (my favorite term), and now that there’s a huge technology aspect with my magic I’m thinking I can conjure up other name ideas that flow with the theme/setting/overall aesthetic of the story. Magic in this universe is formally called aurana, and the only people who can interact and manipulate aurana are, of course, auramancers.
I love the Auramancers idea and it sounds SO COOL but realistically, I gotta call a spade a spade when I see it. Regardless of what they’re called, they function as the mages in my universe and the name I call them is purely a stylistic choice.
Here are the name ideas, can you please tell me which one you like best? :)
Auramancer (gender neutral)
Auron (male) & Auroness OR Aurora (female)
Aion (male) & Aioness (female)
Aurather (male) & Aurathess (female)
Archon (male) & Archoness (female)
Tbh they all sound pretty cool and flow with the setting of my story. This is also just the term for my WIP’s version of a mage. I have SO many sub-classifications for them depending on what kind of magic they can perform and how they perform it. Do they summon? Heal? Cast illusions? Shift into animals? I’ve been studiously working on it and I can’t wait to share more of my magic system and the magic technology bc I’ve really had such a blast working on it. 💕💕💕
#faye speaks#science fantasy#magic systems#writeblr wips#faye's wips#writeblr post#writing magic#fantasy wips#fantasy writeblr#science fantasy writeblr#writeblr opinions#what do you call your mages?#writeblr advice#writing magic systems#creative writing#fantasy writing#science fantasy writing
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A world can be made of cardboard boxes
My friend submitted a play to our university theatre, and when they put it on, I went with her to see it.
She told me she was surprised that the director picked hers. It was a one-act play about a team of supervillains fighting power rangers parodies more dangerous than they were. It takes place in a city. There’s an epic fight. At one point, the script calls for a car to be thrown across the stage.
Our school is tiny. These plays don’t even really have budgets. The ones that go before hers have sets like “two couches and a table” and “the empty stage is a metaphor for depression”. Then, it’s time for her play. Or it should be, but the set up takes 4x as long as it did for the other ones.
The stage hands bring out box after cardboard box, stacking 5 and 6 high, arranging them in a crescent at the back of the stage. When the lights go up, I can see the black marker outlines of cartoon sky scrapers drawn on them. The actors stand in front of them until the fight scene starts. Then, one of the actors picks up a box. It has a little cartoon car drawn on it. It sails through the air and hits the actor dressed in a lobster Halloween costume square in the chest. One of the villains scuffles with one of the power rangers knock-offs, and the power ranger loses his footing, taking out half the city behind him as he falls. By the end of the play, the actors are standing in a pile of rubble.
I learned something really important that day about how I want to do worldbuilding. It freed me from the idea that my worlds have to be detailed, or realistic, or complicated, or fleshed-out. It freed me from the fear and trap of fractal progress, of never doing enough or having enough to work with. It taught me that a world is real enough when characters can run through it and hold it in their hands and have it catch them when they fall, and everything after that is aesthetics.
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So many ideas of fanfictions that I let go…
Countless stories that slipped away because I didn’t think I could handle them. For, when I finally dive into a project, I owe it to both myself and my readers to see it through. Such a flood of ideas… which tells me one thing: a writer's inspiration knows no bounds. This "writer's block" may seem like a looming threat, but really, it's just a temporary hiccup in one particular and individual project's journey. Think about it: as a writer, you never run out of ideas, your imagination never stops running wild for thousands of other projects that you may never start. There are endless stories waiting to be told in your mind, each bursting with potential. Sure, writers hit rough patches, but they're fleeting.
Being a writer means finding inspiration in the unexpected, in those moments that catch you off guard—that's the real beauty of it all.
#kinda had a blast from the past while hearing an old Celtic song#sparked memories of all those Merlin fanfiction ideas I've mulled over...#never wrote any of them though#came to realise that I actually never really stop writing#whether it's in my mind or on paper#writing#writer#fanfiction#fiction#inspiration#writer block#writeblr#writeblr community#writeblr advice
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hello! did you ever struggle with the thought that it would be too late to make this blog into a writeblr? I've reblogged so much to the point where it's impractical to try to cleanup the account, but I'd also like to use my main blog as a writeblr, so I'm having a bit of dilemma right now :(
It's never too late!
Look, there is literally no requirement to being a writeblr besides: Have a tumblr blog where you occasionally post/reblog things about writing. That's it! There's no rule about having to have a clean blog, or it has to be a "pure" writeblr where you never post/reblog anything but writing. It's all personal preference and what you want to do.
You don't actually have to cleanup your account and delete all of your old reblogs. You can just... Be a writeblr. Start now, even though your blog has a history of existing as something else — and that's not a bad thing at all. Just start posting stuff about your WIPs, reblog writing posts, make an intro, do whatever it is that you want to do with a writeblr. It's really that easy! No one is going to judge you for having posted/reblogged things unrelated to writing.
If blog organization is important to you, you can just start organizing your blog from this point onwards with your tagging system for writing posts (or posts that aren't about writing).
If having a blank blog is that important to you, you have a few options:
Use the mass post editor to delete in bulk batches.
Create a new main blog.
Create a sideblog (I know you want your main blog as your writeblr, but I want to point out that this is still an option).
Start posting writeblr stuff, and slowly delete things over time; you don't have to do it all at once.
The only time limit or lateness that exists here is in your own head. You are not the only blog who has started out as a different blog, and shifted over to being a writeblr. And the parameters for what a "writeblr blog is" is not super clear or set in stone, because ultimately it's just a community name. There's no Writeblr Council(tm) that determines whether you are a writeblr or not, whether you're worthy of joining the community or not, or whether it's too late for you to shift into joining the community. There is nothing stopping you from making your blog into a writeblr but your own expectations.
It sounds like you're overthinking things and overburdening yourself a bit, because it really is that easy to just join the community!
Whatever you decide to do, good luck! Whether you decide to take the leap into joining the community or not, the writeblr community will always be here to welcome you. (Or because I can ultimately only speak for myself, I will!)
Remember, all advice is subjective! So don’t take this too seriously. This is just one person’s opinion.
If you’d like to ask me for advice on writing or running a writeblr, please check out my Ask Guidelines and FAQ first.
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Happy STS! Do you have any advice on how to come up with good questions for writers? I always get stuck on what to ask
Well there are several methods I use, maybe they will give you inspiration :D
How to come up with questions for writers
I'm always dealing with writing related questions as I'm writing. So I ask whatever I'm interested in that week. How do they edit? How do people outline? What word processor is their favourite? Are they doing Nano? Why or why not?
I collect fun questions from ask games to send on event days. Search for ask games and pick whatever sounds interesting to you
As you get to know people, you figure out what kind of questions they like. Some like scenario questions, some like writing process questions, some like worlds or plots or characters or genres or themes or whatever interests them
You can always ask for advice on writing things others like to write/do really well. Writers love to talk about what they do and how they write :D
The better you know people and their wips, the easier it will be to ask wip specific questions. People love those. Just look through the person's wip and ask whatever crosses your mind/isn't understandable/haven't been talked about yet. Lots of people like this cause they a) have the answers and just wait for the excuse to talk about it b) they don't know and can start to think about it and develop their story more
Ask about anything fun that you can think if in connection to the person's wip/style/characters/genre. Aim for common interest, for topics interesting to you and choose from those things the other is most likely to be interested in as well, from the info you have about them
It's always good and wanted to ask how the person is doing ;) just a regular hi, how are you, what have you been thinking and writing agony us always welcome and can spart a discussion
Look through the writer's recent activity. Latest excerpts, answered asks, rumbles, graphics, metas, comments. It will give you hints about what they are thinking about and what to ask them to expand on
In summary: start with what's interesting to you, find out what the others like in the process and then keep going :D
#writeblr#writeblr community#writeblr advice#don't mind me being addicted to questions and discussion :D
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I would definitely volunteer but I don't think that would work with me being an anon sadlyyyy
Anyways, when you have a moment, I was kind of wondering what your tips for writing fanfiction are! I have no clue what to do with that and I mean even just a little help might be better than none
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That's fine!
And some tips. Okay.
One, please, and I mean please, don't do the fucking- "f/f means favorite food! e/c means eye color! b/f/n means best friends name!"
It's boring and tedious to read. Give the (Y/n) some character. Make their favorite food Mac n cheese becuase it was their go to durring college and that stuck with them. Make their best friend an enby named Spence who tells the worst jokes and has red hair. Give (Y/n) character, make them feel like a real person while still making sure they apply to all audiences.
That being said (I make this mistake a lot but) don't specify blush. For POC that are reading, blush doesn't show on their skin like it does with white skin. Say things like flustered or 'their face felt hot'. Things like that.
Dancing around specifying skin color, eye color, and things like that really isn't as hard as it seems. I did an Owl House fic waaaay back in the day where the mc was Luz's sister. For context Luz is Dominican American I belive, so I made the reader adopted to fit the plot so everyone of every ethnicity could read.
Another thing is, fucking create paragraphs. Every time the scene changes, new paragraph. Every time someone speaks, new paragraph. Every time the perspective changes, new paragraph. Reading one big chunk of shit is so annoying. Most of the time I don't even give the fic a chance if I see that
Last tip for now is if you're going to do author notes, don't include them in the story. Like don't go- "Cory spilled ketchup on their shirt (I actually spilled some of that on my own while writing this lololol XD lmaooo hdnsjd)" Those things take away from the plot and are over all cringey.
That's all I have for now
#sardonics anons#plant <3#write#writing#writeblr#writeblr advice#writing advice#fanfic#fanfic advice
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Writing Help Needed!
Hey folks, I'm at a bit of an impasse here, and I need advice (minors DNI!). Request under the cut for anyone who wants to engage.
CW: Talkin' 'bout sex, kink, and vaguely about sex work.
So, Starcrossed has gone through ~2.5 drafts at this point, and I was reading the previous versions and thinking, "This is super hot, why am I not writing this more?"
Because initially, it was a passion project to write some tasty, tasty smut, and somewhere along the way it became this drama with plot that has nothing to do with boning.
And as I'm trying to force this smut into a romance, and then that romance into a Hero's Journey-type arc using Save the Cat!, I'm finding that I'm getting further and further away from the original point of the story.
Namely, two dummies are dumb for each other right up until they're not, and there's lots of hot, kinky sex.
But I was afraid of writing about a sex worker. I was afraid of writing about a kink that I haven't personally experienced (on either end).
And, to be honest, I was afraid of writing something that's so niche that no one else would be interested in it. I thrive on reader engagement, like a lot of authors, and not getting it is certain to tank my interest in a project or in writing more generally. I don't say that to be dramatic, I say that because it's already happened in my life.
I was a much more prolific writer in my mid-20s. But once I ran out of novel-writing classes that I could take at my local community college, I stopped, because I had no one to share them with besides family, and I didn't trust their judgment, expecting their words to be nothing but empty platitudes.
Now I'm on Tumblr, and despite having a decent following and following a bunch of other writers in return, I haven't had a single beta reader who's stuck around. I get it. It's hard to get excited about someone else's work when your thing is what's exciting you most in that moment. Shit, I do that too.
But at some point, I have to wonder if it's the beta readers... or my writing. Maybe this is too niche. Maybe it's something I should just keep to myself. I don't know. I can't know unless someone is willing to read through the versions enough to see what's going on, and whether I should go with one or the other or just write for myself. Because I don't know anymore, and the not-knowing is driving me nuts.
#on writing#bonds of trust meta#writeblr advice#writing advice#call for beta readers#help me before i get too deep into this#writing help#| | this close to just closing all the docs and saying goodbye#uh... to tumblr#i'm okay otherwise
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yves, if only theoretically wanted to break into publishing or lit mags, do you have recommendations or advice?
My primary advice is to get to know as many writers as you can, as well as you can, quickly. I’ve recommended joining Discord servers for this in the past and will do so again; the most active ones I’m in are Max's @goose-books server (I think you have to ask for an invite?), WTW, and writeblr garden. Participate in book events virtually and in person when you can. When you like someone's work, tell them! And mention that you're an author, too.
Disclaimer: I haven't made it into any paid magazines, largely because I find submitting and waiting for months at a time before working on edits exhausting, particularly in comparison to instant money on Patreon—so have that grain of salt at the ready! All I've done is publish the one book, twice, and release a substantial amount of short fiction on my own. People read it and liked it, and now I have lovely anons like you who seem to respect me enough to ask for industry advice. Thank you! Hope you like long posts.
The reason I say the above is that, in my experience, the entirety of publishing is just one big who-do-you-know. Utterly non-exhaustive list of ways "knowing people" has helped me in my writing career below.
I left a middling review on a trans author's book, and in the correspondence that followed we became friends. Rysz Merey went on to start tRaum Books, and because we were friends, we put out the Something's Not Right anniversary edition together.
When I was at my university, I was loudly opinionated about books and writing and art in all of my classes, and a professor's words about me in an email to an author they knew became the blurb for that same edition of Something's Not Right.
I read Tragic Accident (a flash piece originally rejected by an online magazine for, in my opinion, cisgender reasons) last night at Flash Fiction Forum, the heads of which I know personally because, after a high school internship, I was directed to a friend of theirs to volunteer at her writing camp. I sold a lot of copies of the original SNR to teens at that camp, and I've sold dozens of copies since by linking to the book in the Zoom chat and bringing physical copies to in-person readings.
Tragic Accident may have ultimately been rejected from the venue I sent it to, but I only had that venue on my list because my beloved friend Fer @asablehart posted in WTW a spreadsheet of places to submit. I still use that spreadsheet, filled with dozens of extra places I researched on my own, and pass it on to anyone who asks. Fer also read The Traveler Wife and gave extremely insightful feedback on it; we've since done tons of great critique4critiques together and they're still my go-to if I need wise words on a piece of writing.
When I held my event at Bookshop Santa Cruz, I marketed my ass off. I'd learned from my previous event at the Diversity Center in town and focused heavily on reaching out to individual people: posting in Discord servers, DMing everyone I knew, and telling everybody I met in December that by the way I would be reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in January. I worked my job as an author and my book and my event into every conversation I had with a stranger that month. Everyone responded positively! People want to know what you're working on.
But at the end of the day, under a third of attendees were people I hadn't previously considered friends in some way. The majority of the people who came were family, friends, coworkers, friends-of-friends dragged along by someone I knew well, etc. One coworker couldn't come but invited their housemates, who bought books and left saying they would read Band Girls at home. One of the friends who came met me when we would ride the same bus every week to class, and I initially spoke to him because I fully thought he was a transgender woman (he turned out to just be an extremely fashionable individual). That guy helped code my website. Of the three people who interviewed me locally for promotion, two are people I'm friends with and one I cold-emailed due to his past work.
One of the major servers I used to invite people to both of my events is one I was only added to because I met a goth girl who invited me to her dorm to watch her inject E into her thigh and when I reported back on this to another transfem friend that friend instantly named her because they were in the server together and multiple people in it knew me from my creative writing efforts so everybody agreed to add me. I literally only had that space to network because I said "nice boots" to a girl whose special interest turned out to be DIY HRT at a protest party about the chancellor getting a raise.
Claire Oshetsky came to my event and I made a point of finally starting to read their book beforehand so I could honestly tell them it was cool when I signed their copy of Something's Not Right (it was cool, and everyone should read Chouette, and also Poor Deer, which I am on page 10 on and can already certify is fantastic). They were incredibly nice to me for no reason—well, because of those interviews I had, which led to them noticing another nonbinary author in the area—and ultimately reviewed SNR very positively on GoodReads. You can see what happened to the numbers afterwards. (I also sold a copy that day; when you sell roughly a copy of a book per week, you can absolutely make these connections directly.)
Tonight was Claire Oshetsky's event, so I showed up having read Chouette in full and asked a question during the Q&A and told them how cool their book was, and they invited me to a little post-event author dinner. (One of the authors introduced herself as "Karen" and described a prolific writing career very opaquely until her friend mentioned the name of her latest novel: Booth.) Everyone was incredibly nice and wanted to buy my book which was unfortunately sold out because of the aforementioned event, and a couple of people gave me email addresses so they could buy it later. I've been trying to meet local authors for over a year, and I met seven by accident because one of them came up to me to say it was nice to see Bookshop Santa Cruz had two nonbinary readers in a row.
Talking to David Sedaris at an event got me a job! He complimented my outfit, I said thank you I wore it for the interview with [x], and he did everything he could to help me network with the [x] people there. I was later told that my "chemistry" with Sedaris, among other things, helped me get the position. I would also find out that David specifically loves the last people in the signing line because they're the most patient; I happened to have waited until last because I wanted to have more time to talk to him.
I have emailed several authors with fanmail, and depending on how popular they are, I have gotten responses! I'm in a correspondence right now which netted me a behind-the-scenes look at an incredible draft, and thank you for reminding me because I need to respond and tell them how good it was.
Patreon is on pause right now, but I believe over half the subscribers are people I'm friends with in one way or another. I've tried nearly everything under the sun to advertise, and so far the only thing that's worked is "telling someone who has the disposable income."
The people who beta-read my latest release, Band Girls (18+), for me (which is the only reason it wasn't an unmitigated disaster) include my butch, who met me in a Locked Tomb server (naturally), a friend from a creative writing class in university who later became my housemate, and a good buddy of my butch's whom they rescued from the aforementioned TLT server. I literally didn't even notice that guy when we were in the server together and it turns out he's also a writer with a Giant Lesbian Women project who also wound up really liking Long Line (18+). Glories are all around you.
(Also, apparently my butch had that "how to write a blurb" post bookmarked and immediately recognized me, which is crazy. Imagine meeting some random author in a fandom server and they ask to see your [redacted] in DMs.)
Hell, my buddy Max Franciscovich read my book five years ago in the back of a car and had a transcendental nonbinary lesbian experience, and because he happened to be mutuals with a high school friend of mine, that friend sent me screenshots of him panicking about how he couldn't talk to me because I was too cool. I DMed him, and we are like each other's female husbands now. Undoubtedly we have each gained a substantive reader base from hyping each other's work at anyone in earshot. Maxserver, which I shouted out above, only has me in it because I know the darn guy. It's a lot more populous than yvescord in part because he is that much more active than I am, and can engage with other people's work more. I'm mooching off the labor of my best friend who pseudo-reached-out to me because I put a pronoun pin on a character's bag in the book I self-published in 2018.
Speaking of which: I self-published the original edition of Something's Not Right as a thank-you birthday gift to the Beta Reader. I seem to remember him reading my writing for the first time and saying something along the lines of "You do realize this is really good, right?" (I did not realize.) That was the first person to appreciate any of my original fiction, and it led to my entire career. We met on a class trip because he was the only person who would listen to me talk about Star Wars.
I try to never ingenuinely be nice to people. This is not particularly difficult, because I like people and give the benefit of the doubt to a pretty extreme fault. I will occasionally be nice out of politeness, but everyone I mentioned here is someone I genuinely like whose work is fantastic. It wasn't hard to honestly say I liked them and their writing.
I also recognize that much of this is kind of just me blathering about Ws with no actionable advice... but it might give you ideas for where to go or who to talk to about your writing. I also want you to feel just how much of writing is about "networking" in a way that is not cold and manipulative and moneyhungry but actually just involves being genuine friends with other people. I think the sheer quantity of evidence here is helpful to understand just how much you can do for yourself by talking to the people you like.
I also think it's good practice to own the fact that very little of my microcelebrity success has anything to do with how good my work is. I mean, sure, I think it's good, but this should make it clear that my greatest strength has been my perseverance and my friendliness.
(Also, obviously, I have the immense privilege to have gone to college, to live in California, to get to all these places and meet these people and work with them. I had the money in the bank to publish and promote a book. This is not a small factor. I'm hoping to do a full rundown of costs and efforts to promote Something's Not Right's anniversary edition sometime this year.)
I also don't think I'm particularly good at socializing—I have a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, a difficulty with meeting people's eyes, and a mild stutter when I talk too quickly (which is often). A lot of people find me annoying or insincere because I act like a sentient powder puff, and when I'm not jumping up and down and meowing at people instead of saying "on your right," I'm complaining about the most widely-beloved pieces of pop culture and making two-hour rant videos about video games I think insufficiently scrutinize the concept of the nuclear family. I say all this to head off any concerns that perhaps I am just secretly very suave and social; I love talking to people, but I don't believe this is the case.
If I can summarize: nearly every time I've had any success with my writing, it's been because I made an effort to be kind to people I respected and share my passion for books and writing. I hit upon enough privileges and lucky circumstances to get the right circle of people to make all of the above happen. I think you can do it, too! I wish you the best. Thanks for asking ^__^
#yves talks#yves talks writing#txt#Good Lord this evil wall of text. Hope somebody enjoyed??#writeblr#writeblr advice#writing advice#asks#important writing updates#snr2#something's not right
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I’m 50-75% done with the first draft of part 1 … but now I’m stuck. There have been decisions and crises and growth. But for some reason I’m drawing a blank on what’s next. I can’t figure out what they’d do. I know it means I need to go back to find the broken piece but me going back usually ends up with me rewriting enormous chunks of content and I just need to finish this draft and stop rewriting the middle.
How do I get unstuck??
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Should I go the science fantasy route or the modern fantasy route? Heeeellllpppp meeeeee! Ughhh >:(
I’m going to drop the most basic ideas/tropes/plot points in my WIP below. Could you P L E A S E give me some advice and tell me if you think it fits more of modern fantasy world or a scifi fantasy world? Both ideas are set in a modern, secondary world like ours but obviously different.
Science & Magic Are Intermixed (Certain Humans Have Powers)
I’ll either have espers who have psychokinetic abilities or mages with magic (whatever ‘magic’ looks like/is called by in my world). I just can’t make up my damn mind on what would work better. Technically they both accomplish the ‘humans with powers’ role I want for this story. It’s incredibly rare for a human to be born with these powers/magic, so majority of the population is non-magic.
Post-apocalyptic Event that Changes the World (Demon Apocalypse)
We’re talking thousands and thousands of years after said apocalypse, so humanity/society has had plenty of time to rebuild. This catastrophic event drastically changed how society had to proceed going forward in order to prevent it from happening again. Certain organizations systemically euthanized people who were more at risk for demon possession and created safety measures and magical safeguards (but most of this is not not public knowledge). While mages/espers took control after said event and there’s class issues with magic vs. non-magic folk, it’s not necessarily a dystopian setting. Society is up and is thriving.
Voluntary Games to Increase Status, Wealth, and Quality of Life (Maybe)
Colosseum-style games run by a magical empire that offer life-changing rewards for those who participate. No one is forced, but people are heavily encouraged to enter. Games vary and could be anything from a race to a battle royal to hide and seek to a talent show. All games are pubic and televised and aggressively advertised to those on the lower end of the social hierarchy spectrum (non-magic folk).
If I Go the Modern Fantasy Route (My Original Idea)
I’ll be able to include other immortal species besides in my story, like werewolves, vampires, shapeshifters, etc. There’s not a lot of them because when mages took control after the apocalypse, many were hunted down and eliminated as the posed a risk to the survival of humanity. Common folk believe that there’s no supernatural creatures left other than the mages (this is partially true, as their numbers have dwindled drastically). I also like this idea because HELLOOOO I can you even imagine magical schools? Criminal organizations with magic? Humans using magic technology to get ahead in life because they have no magic of their own??? So many possibilities!
If I Go the Science Fantasy Route (More Recent Idea)
The only species in the story are common humans, elite humans, espers, super soldiers, and demons. There’s no such thing as immortality, though through thousands of years of medical experimentation the lifespan of all types of humans has increased exponentially. I also thought of possibly creating a dystopia disguised as a utopia type setting. ‘Magic’ is not considered magic as it is considered a type of science.
What are your thoughts??
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Matthew Colville is a source of great advice
This guy runs a tabletop gaming company and dnd youtube channel, but he's also a writer, and a lot of his advice is also applicable to writing!
Here's an example:
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This and his other videos on creating politics are great and have permanently changed how I think about worldbuilding!
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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.
#this is my beef with a lot of 'badass' characters and male romantic leads tbh#writeblr#writing#character writing#writing advice#characters#i'm just sayin'
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