I've learned more from watching your videos than I have in any creative writing class or workshop. Everyone else just rehashes the same tired old basics and general tips, and they're never willing to give genuine feedback for improvement or delve into the meat of the craft itself. So I appreciate your detailed advice and breakdowns of what works and what doesn't. It's helped my writing tremendously the last few months.
Great Video. Using and remembering Environments in worldbuilding really so obvious but so often overlooked. I think it's something that a lot of my favorite writers (namely Tolkien) actually did really well without me realizing it, and something I look forward to implementing in my story.
Glad you liked the video - and yes, the environment really is overlooked so often. But it can be so much more. And it doesn't necessarily require the creation of something new. Geography etc. is quite often covered already. It is just a matter of giving all the things that were placed somewhere a meaning and a connection to the world's history as well as the story 🙂
I'm surprised you didn't mention genre anywhere. Understanding how you want your world to feel will have a massive impact on it. Creating a setting where no one wins and it's only suffering will be far different from a setting meant for heroes. I also wanted to mention that genre can influence more than the theme and atmosphere. For example, a fantasy setting is usually a reflection of the protagonists' emotions, while fiction is usually the world influencing the protagonist. Lastly, I wanted to mention the rule of 3. It makes everything a lot easier if you can break it down into multiples of 3. 3 major factions each have 3 noble families who hold land over 3 territories. Of course it doesn't need to be exactly 3, but just saying that one sentence outlined a ton of macroscopic information for a setting.
I think the video can ultimately be boiled down to "Consider everything" but it's nice to have it all laid out, because it's hard to keep everything in mind. One thing I would add is, don't be afraid to revise the same thing over and over as you consider new things. Magic, technology, and politics are probably the biggest factors in changing how a society functions.
Those that believe politics and economics are the boring stuff couldn't be further from the truth : these are the sources of conflict in the world. They are what make the world change, so unless the story is purely about internal conflict, they are in fact the most important stuff, way more important than the magic system or even culture.
No disagreements from me here 🙂While I do find magic, creatures etc. sometimes more fun to craft, politics and economics always tie the world together properly.
Geography plays a big role. Like mountain ranges that no one can cross, creating isolation between 2 civilizations. Rivers that change direction, causing cities to become ruins, after they lose their main source of trade and water supply.
One of my species in my story stem from a neutron star. The noxar on their own could not escape it. Another species managed to scan and reproduce them so they could be their pets. Noxar however are sentient and communicate without the engineers noticing. Their culture is born from revolution. The noxar destroyed the main archive to break the engineers who died out incredibly quickly when they could no longer recreate and use their own technology. Without a clear purpose the functionally immortal noxar commit self delete by starvation. Nothing but their own claws and teeth could harm them now that the engineers technology was unusable. Their offspring degrade with each generation. Now only one of the Null born (born in a laboratory, so still generation 0) is left alienated by his kind but revered as the last null born. He would refuse any and all rolls of leadership. Null born were all equal and their relays (sensory organ also used for communication) made mass coordination easy, so why have a dedicated leader when all could suggest and disgust together. They were all in it together and so they would all be equal.
You mean the creation of a single character, or something more broader like an entire new race? 🙂 In terms of a single character, I do have a few videos in the works already where I include storytelling a bit more, basically using made-up characters and their story for the sake of making the video's theory more accessible. I could imagine that some of those videos are similar to what you are looking for, especially those about writing female or dwarven characters. These are planned for the end of next month with other types of characters following afterwards 🙂
That really depends on how you approach outlining. In theory, you could start writing your actual story from the get go - it simply requires more worldbuilding (and often more revisions) throughout the writing process 🙂
@@TheTaleTinkerer Thanks a lot. I already planned and outlined my worldbuilding with 5 Kingdom's and 5 major territories/continent, but I was struggling with adding more history in each kingdom 😇
@@theklatosshowtv197 It really depends how much worldbuilding you want to do. Having so much defined already, I personally probably would focus on writing the actual story, and then flesh out history as I come across scenes in the book that could use more depth here 🙂
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I've learned more from watching your videos than I have in any creative writing class or workshop. Everyone else just rehashes the same tired old basics and general tips, and they're never willing to give genuine feedback for improvement or delve into the meat of the craft itself. So I appreciate your detailed advice and breakdowns of what works and what doesn't. It's helped my writing tremendously the last few months.
Thank you for the kind words - this really is very motivating to hear. Glad you get some value out of my videos 🙂
Working on an idea for a fantasy novel and stumbled upon your channel. It has been SUCH a blessing oh my word 🎊 Keep up the good work
Thank you for the positive feedback - I always appreciate it when someone takes the time to leave some encouraging words 🙂
Great Video. Using and remembering Environments in worldbuilding really so obvious but so often overlooked. I think it's something that a lot of my favorite writers (namely Tolkien) actually did really well without me realizing it, and something I look forward to implementing in my story.
Glad you liked the video - and yes, the environment really is overlooked so often. But it can be so much more. And it doesn't necessarily require the creation of something new.
Geography etc. is quite often covered already. It is just a matter of giving all the things that were placed somewhere a meaning and a connection to the world's history as well as the story 🙂
I'm surprised you didn't mention genre anywhere. Understanding how you want your world to feel will have a massive impact on it. Creating a setting where no one wins and it's only suffering will be far different from a setting meant for heroes.
I also wanted to mention that genre can influence more than the theme and atmosphere. For example, a fantasy setting is usually a reflection of the protagonists' emotions, while fiction is usually the world influencing the protagonist.
Lastly, I wanted to mention the rule of 3. It makes everything a lot easier if you can break it down into multiples of 3. 3 major factions each have 3 noble families who hold land over 3 territories. Of course it doesn't need to be exactly 3, but just saying that one sentence outlined a ton of macroscopic information for a setting.
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I think the video can ultimately be boiled down to "Consider everything" but it's nice to have it all laid out, because it's hard to keep everything in mind. One thing I would add is, don't be afraid to revise the same thing over and over as you consider new things. Magic, technology, and politics are probably the biggest factors in changing how a society functions.
And religion as well, it's probably the most influencial thing apart from environment imo
Those that believe politics and economics are the boring stuff couldn't be further from the truth : these are the sources of conflict in the world.
They are what make the world change, so unless the story is purely about internal conflict, they are in fact the most important stuff, way more important than the magic system or even culture.
No disagreements from me here 🙂While I do find magic, creatures etc. sometimes more fun to craft, politics and economics always tie the world together properly.
Geography plays a big role. Like mountain ranges that no one can cross, creating isolation between 2 civilizations. Rivers that change direction, causing cities to become ruins, after they lose their main source of trade and water supply.
Trade and poletics are also important in Star Wars.
They sure are :-)
One of my species in my story stem from a neutron star. The noxar on their own could not escape it. Another species managed to scan and reproduce them so they could be their pets. Noxar however are sentient and communicate without the engineers noticing. Their culture is born from revolution. The noxar destroyed the main archive to break the engineers who died out incredibly quickly when they could no longer recreate and use their own technology.
Without a clear purpose the functionally immortal noxar commit self delete by starvation. Nothing but their own claws and teeth could harm them now that the engineers technology was unusable. Their offspring degrade with each generation. Now only one of the Null born (born in a laboratory, so still generation 0) is left alienated by his kind but revered as the last null born. He would refuse any and all rolls of leadership. Null born were all equal and their relays (sensory organ also used for communication) made mass coordination easy, so why have a dedicated leader when all could suggest and disgust together. They were all in it together and so they would all be equal.
really cool !🤩
Glad to hear you liked it :-)
Can you do a video where you make characters
You mean the creation of a single character, or something more broader like an entire new race? 🙂
In terms of a single character, I do have a few videos in the works already where I include storytelling a bit more, basically using made-up characters and their story for the sake of making the video's theory more accessible.
I could imagine that some of those videos are similar to what you are looking for, especially those about writing female or dwarven characters. These are planned for the end of next month with other types of characters following afterwards 🙂
How much history do I need to plan before I start writing my novel?
That really depends on how you approach outlining. In theory, you could start writing your actual story from the get go - it simply requires more worldbuilding (and often more revisions) throughout the writing process 🙂
@@TheTaleTinkerer Thanks a lot. I already planned and outlined my worldbuilding with 5 Kingdom's and 5 major territories/continent, but I was struggling with adding more history in each kingdom 😇
@@theklatosshowtv197 It really depends how much worldbuilding you want to do. Having so much defined already, I personally probably would focus on writing the actual story, and then flesh out history as I come across scenes in the book that could use more depth here 🙂
i'm so early 😅
Don't do it again. You'll get a whiplash 😂😂😂
@@phantasy5608 What's the saying: "the early bird catches the worm"? 🙂