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How autistic do you guys get when it comes to world building and lore?
My boyfriend is a fairly novice writer and he's trying to write his first fantasy short story.
So far he has a 5 page summary of the story
And 60 pages of notes detailing the geo-politics and dynastic politics of the kingdoms in this world. He wanted to ensure his demon overlord was a "rational figure who was invading the human kingdoms out of political necessity and not because he eats babies or anything"

>> No.20116302

>>20116299
>boyfriend
Ngmi

>> No.20116325

>>20116299
World building is for series. A single story doesn’t need all that. Not on paper anyway.

Personally, I’m doing a story set in the future, and I thought I’d give some effort to slight changes to the language, but so that it makes some sense. Also naming conventions and whatnot.
So, to slightly amend. Unless the story is about all that stuff being fleshed out, it doesn’t need fleshing out

>> No.20116330

Not at all. You're doing a 4x4, verse-chorus-verse-chorus, pentatonic approach to it. You gotta jazz this shit some more. It's not to say that it must be a random approach, but an improvisatiomal, spur of the moment one, as in knowing exactly what the situation calls for and finding the appropriate response to a particular moment that doesn't feel like an ass pull or deus ex machina or making rules out of nowhere, but things that fit in with the general set of unspoken rules observed so far.

Like the jazz player creates in the present second, building upon what has already occurred.

>> No.20116338

That meme, like most, is painfully unfunny.
Anyway,
1. Sorry, but nobody gives a shit about his lore
2. Show don't tell
3. Only give the necessary details and leave most to the imagination (it is *fantasy* after all, better to loosely describe your ooze monster as the characters would see it than give a billion pages about how the oozes reproduce and eat)

>> No.20116349

I don't read fantasy.

>> No.20116367

>>20116299
>He wanted to ensure his demon overlord was a "rational figure who was invading the human kingdoms out of political necessity and not because he eats babies or anything"
The latter is more interesting if given depth. Political realism is dull and never actually realistic.

>> No.20116386

>>20116299
>He wanted to ensure his demon overlord was a "rational figure who was invading the human kingdoms out of political necessity and not because he eats babies or anything
It's stuff like this that makes me prefer black and white morality in fiction

>> No.20116395

>>20116299
I'm the same way. I've been working on a novel for ~7 years. Every time I start working on it, I get bogged down researching insanely minor details like automobile designation conventions in the Soviet Union.

>> No.20116452
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20116452

maybe he just likes worldbuilding

>> No.20116777

>>20116349
I don't read genre fiction.

>> No.20116961

>>20116777
I don't read.

>> No.20116969

>>20116299
>Stoic Roman guy with heretic goth girlfriend
Any examples in history?

>> No.20118224

>>20116969
read Titus Andronicus I guess

>> No.20118726

>>20118224
Thanks.

>> No.20118871

>>20116299
What counts as being kinky in the 2020's?

>> No.20118882

>>20118871
wanting to fuck kids

>> No.20118886

>>20116961
I can’t read

>> No.20118892

>>20118886
I can’t breath

>> No.20118907

>>20118892
OFFISA PLEASE

>> No.20118908

>>20118871
Drinking their blood and physical trauma. It is actually alarming how extreme things have gotten desu. Choking and hair pulling is a *prerequisite* for zoomer girls. https://youtu.be/BjMwdL5WtFc

>> No.20118928

>>20116299
Generally speaking I just tell the story however I want and then write the world afterwards so it makes sense, then going forward I just figure if I haven't explicitly said something can't happen then it can if it advances the story.

Generally speaking autists find worlds easier to write than characters so they get bogged down imo, putting the cart before the horse. I realized I was guilty of this so I just stopped worldbuilding before writing and I've been a lot more productive since then.

>> No.20119161

>>20118892
I can't sneed

>> No.20119262

>>20119161
Shutup chud