Comments on: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 1: World-Building History

By: NaNo 2011: Ruins of Empire-Timeline « Neither Here nor There….

NaNo 2011: Ruins of Empire-Timeline « Neither Here nor There…. — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:21:12 +0000

[...] It’s how the build locations, cultures and languages. The most that readers will see are glimpses of the lattice the writer used to erect their epic world/universe because they want to read a story, not an encyclopedia. Still, consistency depends on doing the [...]

By: Writing Excuses for NaNoWriMo « work your way out

Writing Excuses for NaNoWriMo « work your way out — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:37:46 +0000

[...] Worldbuilding History [...]

By: 3 Days to NaNo: A Writer’s Notes/Timeline « Ruins of Empire

3 Days to NaNo: A Writer’s Notes/Timeline « Ruins of Empire — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:30:50 +0000

By: Catching the Research Bug « Sturm und Drang

Catching the Research Bug « Sturm und Drang — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:26:21 +0000

[...] risk of all of this is that I start “showing my research” or worse show that I did not do enough of [...]

By: Readin’, Writin’, and Arithmetic | S.D. Smith

Readin’, Writin’, and Arithmetic | S.D. Smith — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:11:46 +0000

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By: Bernd

Bernd — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:02:16 +0000

I really wonder why nobody mentioned R. Feist’s works (the Midkemia series, see crydee.com) in relation to this podcast. In my opinion it really deserves a plug for this topic, since it’s the only books I know, where you can see the events that you witnessed in one book, become history in a later book (which can mean 50-100 years later). And that’s one of the biggest strengths of the series: watching the beloved (and now dead) characters become legend.

By: My Cure for World Building Disease « Sturm und Drang

My Cure for World Building Disease « Sturm und Drang — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:50:36 +0000

[...] It remains all in my head. I wrote a paragraph at most only to annihilate it with the dreaded backspace button. Yes, I fell victim to the bane of oh so many would be speculative fiction writers, world building disease. [...]

By: J. Rawlins

J. Rawlins — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:59:52 +0000

This one helped ALOT. My entire story is reliant on the world’s history, and (like every one of these podcasts I listen to) this one’s thrown the reality in my face that I need to redo it all. Thanks guys.

By: Jerry Ackerman

Jerry Ackerman — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:54:00 +0000

I just wanted to thank you, Dan, Howard, and Brandon for the past two great seasons of podcasts. When I began writing again, I searched for guidance and thanks to your podcasts, I received that in abundance! I look forward to this podcast each week more than new episodes of say, Family Guy (I don’t really watch a lot of TV actually, lol).

I enjoyed the episode, the worldbuilding podcasts are always interesting!

Jerry

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:22:25 +0000

A good essay that gives due praise to worlbuilding and “genre” fiction: http://www.conceptualfiction.com/notes_on_conceptual_fiction

Howard — try Desloratadin (called Aerius, atleast in Sweden), an antihistamine without drowsiness as a sideeffect.