Tag: World Building
Worldbuild Like an Anthropologist
Check out my article, “Worldbuild Like an Anthropologist,” in WOW! Women on Writing, and get ready to take a walk through your fictional world.
Doctor Who! (Spoiler Free) The Importance of Tone!
Tone is so important to the creation of the world in order to bring your reader or audience into the correct mental space of the story you want to present. Doctor Who is a great example of how tone affects the world.
Fictional Anthropology
Viewing world building as fictional anthropology is a great way to ensure your world is complex, realistic, and unique, without falling prey to genre tropes.
Tera: A Lesson in How Not to Dress Women
Women’s fashion isn’t great in a lot of fantasy and sci-fi art, but Tera’s outfit take the cake on what designers shouldn’t do.
Aphantasia: How Do You See Your World?
Can you imagine a beach? Aphantasia is the inability to visualize images in your mind. This would seem to be a problem for writers, but is it?
Horizon Zero Dawn: Two Worlds in One Game
Horizon Zero Dawn manages to not only create two entirely different worlds but also weave it beautifully into the storytelling.
The Last Guardian: A Hollow World
Take a look at the dangers of too little world building through the game The Last Guardian.
Ready Player One: When You Know Too Much
Ready Player One is a great example of the dangers of too much world-building being dumped onto the reader. Let’s take a look at the tightrope authors walk when when building a universe.
Star Trek: Discovery – Does It Want to be Star Trek?
Take a look at how Star Trek Discovery handles it’s world building in an established universe.
The Orville: Does Its Universe Hold Up?
Given my love for all things Star Trek, including fun parodies of Star Trek, I thought we’d delve into two new shows in the next couple of posts and look at the success or failure of their respective world-building schemes: Star Trek: Discovery and… Continue Reading “The Orville: Does Its Universe Hold Up?”
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