12/12/2023 0 Comments Your chronicle fairy dropHowever, the Midas touch strikes again, and amidst the lazy boat ride, something new appears. By now in the world-building process, I would take time to sit with what’s been created, subconsciously sketching out and defining as I go through the rest of my day. It’s dynamic and imaginable, and it’s somewhere we can place ourselves easily. I think this is a good painting of our world so far. I picture how they move and walk in this imagined space, maybe how they laugh too – tossing jokes to each other like old friends. I’m thinking of two characters – Character A and B – dressed modestly in silk robes and crowns of blue roses, gliding down the slow-moving river in a wooden boat. Wheat stalks sway back and forth throughout the day, and interspersed between the beige grass fields is a web of streams feeding into a longer river holding clear, baby-blue water. I want my world to move in the breeze, like Duke Garden trees on cloudy evenings. A single aspect changed to start, but it’s enough to work with. How should it look when I scan the horizon from a plane? How does it feel when I step out into the sun and run? The world I’m thinking of is like ours, but instead of gothic towers and roaring car engines, it's covered in patches of bright, dense wheat fields – a blessing from the Greek goddess Demeter. I feel lucky when I hear a muted snap from between my ears and find an idea swirling around. I feel lucky when I’m the last one to find a spot on the C-1, lucky when I grab a new meal from The Loop I end up liking. Luck – why not the starting point for our new world? Good fortune favors the few, proven in the myths and legends of Grimms’ Fairy Tales and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. But making a world for ourselves, with all of history to draw from, is not easy to do. There’s an abundance of inspiration, and when we climb off the daily cycle for just a moment to catch our breath, it’s easy for goosebumps to fly up our arms at the idea of our little world and the people who inhabit it. Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Game of Thrones are renowned for how their characters live and breathe in a world dissimilar to ours but close enough for it to feel real.īeyond fantasy novels, we have prototypical amoeba to study, Charlemagne history books to scour through and cuddly capybaras to watch on YouTube. Flip through the pages of your favorite book, whether bonded leather, paperback or digital screen, and the world unfurls by the word. A home with dry soil and deciduous trees and black sand, filled with smaller blueprints spanning millennia from different voices, different heads and hearts. Earth, though an iron-dense orb spinning in space, is a home.
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