/lit/ - Literature

>>19271613
Nah bro, you're still in the cool gang.

>>11945833

The key to worldworlding in writing is learning how to exposit it properly. You can't just write ten pages explaining who this king and that war and this history and that magic is like and such and such. The reader will fall asleep and chuck it aside. Only Tolkien is allowed to do this because he's Tolkien.

First, don't 'infodump' the reader. As the generic standard, you need a character who is unknowledgeable about the world, and then when he sees something he doesn't know about, he then asks a knowledgeable character the same questions that the reader would ask, giving the reader knowledge of the world.

The second method is in environmental description. Main character sees a statue of the king, then has an internal monologue about why he hates him so much, thus conveying knowledge to the reader.

Third, make it a goal to explain the world as slowly as possible. Part of the joy of fantasy is gradually discovering the world; if you ejaculate everything into their face on page one there's nothing left to discover. Only explain what the reader needs to know to understand the current segment of the story. If you need the reader to know about some section of your worldbuilding for a story, consider a smaller sub-story beforehand that revolves around the worldbuliding knowledge you need them to understand, so the reader already knows it when the 'main' story comes up. So consider small stories that revolve around revealing parts of your world in a natural way, but make sure that what they are learning is important to the story as a whole; readers hate it when an author spends thirty pages describing an irrelevant place/concept/history which is then never mentioned again in the rest of the book

Finally, the key thing is to remember that the story is about the character's emotional journey. The reader doesn't care that there's some made-up fantasy king somewhere, but they will care about how your character feels about it because they can relate to that human experience.

As a general aside, /lit/ hates anime and even genre fiction, which itself is contained in a single thread. Just to warn you.

>>11610154
Thank you man.