WORLD BUILDING CHECKLIST

WORLD BUILDING CHECKLIST

If you are writing a book/story that takes place in another world, I have provided for you the complete world building checklist to ensure that you know your world inside out.

Economy A. Currency B. Poverty rate/line

Government A. Crime & Legal System B. Foreign Relations C. Politics D. War

The Land A. Physical & Historical Features B. Climate C. Geography D. Natural Resources E. Population

Society & Culture A. Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation B. Architecture C. Calendar D. Daily Life. E. Diet F. Ethics & Values G. fashion & Dress H. History I. Dining Customs J. Education K. Language L. Gestures M. Manners N. Meeting & Greeting O. Religion & Philosophy P. Social organization

Magic A. Magicians B. Magic and science C. Magic & Technology D. Rules of Magic

Technology C. Technology D. Medicine D. Transportation & Communication you're welcome <3

Fell free to reblog and fill it out if you want. I am curious to see the worlds in my fellow writers heads.

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I know this is a normal cycle of creativity slump.

I know that having a gigantic event this week is taking a lot of thought process, leaving less for creativity.

I know that this has happened before and has always resulted in creative outpouring happening again.

I know making slow progress is still progress and that's important.

I know there's life stuff going on that's taking up a lot of time and causing emotional stuff, and it's more difficult to balance work life on top of that.

I know all of this, but I'm still worried that I'll never get my creativity back, that writing will be this painstaking forever.

I need to stream my writing on twitch or some shit. Nobody would watch but it'd make sure that I don't get too distracted

Life imitates art -

or maybe art imitates life, but in doing that, it became much more beautiful that the original. What are the implications of that? Of course, life isn't bad. It's not always ugly - the world is beautiful, and the things that can happen when human souls meet are truly magical. But life is also raw, unstructured, unpolished. Which you can only say by comparing it to art.

Isn't that crazy? Art can only imitate life, imitate the human mind and the things we can imagine. But in doing that, it has found all the best versions of every moment, and now it can show us how things could be. Every piece of art is perfect, in the sense that it's more perfect than the world it came from - idealized, purified.

Connections between humans can be beautiful - this is only an example. Every kind interaction is pure in its own way. But do we still look at them the same after seeing how they can, literally, become art? All the hidden mechanisms between individuals have been analyzed and pondered for millennia, people have thought and felt, and then they took only the beatiful parts and put them together. Coincidental meetings turn into arcs. Awkward muttered words turn into thought-out phrases. This is how things could be. Is this how things should be?

We have admired perfection for so long that maybe, just maybe, we have forgotten that humans are clumsy, and so is fate.

time to rewrite two whole scenes a few hours before they need to be finished just cause the pacing is weird. fuck me

I really do not understand the culture around authors who post online.

I've been following a lot of indie authors especially on tiktok. it gives me some good insights into how things work for these types of authors and also it helps me find some really good books. But it feels so... dead? People never talk about their characters, or their favourite scenes or make memes about their stories or answer questions about their characters or world. there's no whimsy. Like when I draw my ocs I expect to make jokes about them, and chat with people about them. But that culture seems to be severely lacking around written ocs.

and then even worse authors seem scared to review books. I saw one woman today who said she doesn't even like to say online WHAT she's reading because what if the author turns out to be problematic or she doesn't like the book and then has to admit that.

like girl you are still a normal ass woman. you're allowed to have opinions on books.

Idk it just feels so sanitized and like almost gross how people who write books just have this culture of never talking about the contents of said books and also you're now meant to be this opinionless being who has 0 opinions on other literature. I write cause I love my characters and cause I love stories. why the fuck would I not gush about my characters and review books to my hearts content?!