I love the idea of world-building, but that's for the sci-fi and the fantasy folks, not for a romance author who likes to add just a bit of mystery/suspense. Alex is on a virtual book tour, and from the number of comments he is getting it's looks like a sure success.
As a artist, as well as a writer, I love to create paintings that might be considered the settings for a fantasy universe. Now, if I can just figure out how to tie them in with a new book.
That idea intrigues me.
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I think building a fantastical world can go either way. It might be over done or just right. I suppose it could be raw too. I have lived in a fantasy all my life. It's easy for me to imagine this since I searched my mother's gardens for faerie when I was a child. Never found one. When I read J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit, I wanted to know where the elves went. I came up with a solution.
Nancy
N. R. Williams, fantasy author
Thanks for the mention, Monti! Appreciate you following my tour - it's a blast so far.
I think there's a lot you can do with world-building even with a real life setting. The possibilites are as varied as there are people and we all see the world a little different.
Holly Lisle has great resources for world building - covering everything from creating a language to populating it with characters. I think this is the best part of writing - creating a world you can control. The Power!
I start off with an interesting scene first and build the rest of the world around it.
My Darcy Mutates
Thanks for the comments! I've never tried world-building but think it might be fun to create and control a world of our own!!!
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