World Building Side Notes
Out of all the best world-building authors that I’ve read, one thing that interests me the most is the way hints to the greater history and world background are dropped along the way. Tolkien’s world is the perfect example (as always), with all the work he put in to the history of his world. Historical and geographical allusions are seeded throughout all the stories he set in that world. Even the Silmarillion, which is ostensibly a history, refers to people, places, and events that aren’t specifically explained.
What do I mean by this? I love the concept of a fully fleshed-out world. I know a lot of people who prefer a universe that appears to be lived-in, and that’s a good state to reach, but to me the complete world is the way to go. What that also means to my work is that I tend to be a guy who just writes histories and never actually gets around to the story at hand.
It’s probably just my secret dream to be an archivist.
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