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2024-09-25
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Fic Worldbuilding Q&A

Summary:

To celebrate a decade since my first fic on Ao3, I've decided I want to spend some time infodumping about worldbuilding decisions I've made in my fic, and HOW I make decisions like that.

I do a lot of research and thinking about things like letter-writing styles, transport, societal structures, culture, speculative creature biography, how magic works... and all these ideas come from somewhere! A LOT of briefly-mentioned things in my fic have more thought behind them than appears on screen, and research too. So where do I go looking when I'm building those ideas? What do I research, and what do I just make up?

Comment with your questions, and I'll post my answers as chapters in this work.

Chapter 1: Contents

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This chapter is a placeholder to allow people to comment with questions, and will possibly become a contents page in future.

 

There is also a tumblr post for this Q&A, and anything I get asked there I'll copy over here. (I don't talk a lot about writing on tumblr, so don't feel you have to follow me there, by the way.) You can view it at https://www.tumblr.com/oakandgumtrees/762590319209480192/fic-worldbuilding-qa-with-seekeronthepath

 

Questions:

  • How do you make a new character?
  • How do you choose how much research to add in your story and what will be too much?
  • How do you write interesting letters?