Hello, I am a student and a writer although I have not pursued publication with anything that I have written so far. I feel most of it is incomplete and I would not feel comfortable submitting incomplete works to a publishing house or agent. For me, writing is a hobby and not necessarily something I want to make a living from- it's something I can use to get past hard times and it helps me get all of my 'extra' thoughts out so I can focus on schoolwork as well.
This blog is going to chronicle my work and development of the world, universe and societies in which many of my original works take place. I would like to have a more solid idea of the history, culture, language and environment my characters and creatures live in and interact with, because it will make fleshing out everything else later a lot easier.
Most of it won't be specific- I like to keep specifics to myself until I know how everything works and fits together- so it will be about the processes and research that goes into building a detailed world instead. I find that being a world-builder requires at least a little bit of knowledge about a lot of things; how and why planets form in various ways, how and why certain elements are present in an environment but not in others, how things adapt to different environments and what those adaptations look like in the present and the past on Earth.
I find that being studious and doing good research makes mistakes like something like a pegasus (which would have had to have six legs at some point, in addition to a third bone girdle to support them) less likely to happen in my worlds, although I am sure inaccuracies still exist. What this means is that the development of the world this blog is following will be a vast amount of information when I finish (if it is ever finished- worlds and stories tend to evolve over time).
I will post samples of my world-building techniques at times- mock-ups of field journals or art, pieces of written works, important sculptures or paintings of various landscapes and cities. At times I do employ a bit of a backwards process- starting out with character sheets and figuring out where things fit in from there, but I already have quite a bit of these things put together and I have noticed things that have begun to be contradictory in my stories or settings. I may also sometimes post completed maps, diagrams or family trees because I use those quite a bit as well, especially when focusing in on a character or two.
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