What to Expect

I haven’t completely decided what I want to post here, but you can probably expect observations about the real world and lots of world-building. Where some writers write for the sake of characters, story or an idea, I write for the sake of the world. I look to the world around me and I see a marvelously complex system. I steal what bits I like; I take things and rearrange them. My thoughts are filled with ‘what-ifs’ and ‘how else’s’. I say I concentrate on the world, but I do not neglect character, story or idea, for they are all part of the world. A world is much more complex than mere setting. It is the entire background of a story, encompassing the history that precedes it, the societies, cities and people that populate it and the things that can happen. Everything has a history and everything has a relation to something else.

My worlds, once built expand past the boundaries of any one story. There is always something left to explore or something left unsaid in the background. It is theses details of history and society that make like to find their way into blog posts while I am trying to work consistently on one story. If they can’t make it onto paper as part of the story I am working on they might as well find their way to a blog.