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What kind of world building do you practice the most? (discuss.online)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/worldbuilding

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I have always preferred creating maps and geography over other types of writing, I love learning about language rules and I occasionally find myself thinking about conlanging in the most random moments

If I had to categorise it, I would mostly call myself a cartographer in the space of world building

What do you prefer? I know some that love creating unique species, others just fucking around with planets, some just like making art for characters they wrote about

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The kind where I build everything in my head, write nothing down, forget it in a day or two never to be seen again while I feel sad about not ever developing them properly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I always have obsidian open to write anything thau comes to mind

Though, I'm actually using this as a way to motivate me to finish my blog

'finish your blog and you can worldbuild again' It works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right now, it's been super easy for me to get sucked into developing peoples and the history of cultures, technologies, and nations. I selfhost Trilium and have turned part of it into a wiki for that stuff. I would like to start focusing on the micro-scale at this point, though. It'll be fun for me to start fleshing out cities and the people in them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

artifexian has a really nice and clear tutorial on how you can draw cities in inkscape or illustrator or whatever

Also, trillium looks really cool and I might also host it myself, but since it is in maintenance mode, is there any alternative?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's a handy tip. I'll check him out.

Trilium Next is the community-driven successor, but I can't say I'm too familiar with it. I set up my Trilium awhile ago and I don't typically like to stay on the bleeding edge of things. I will check it out if/when I start having problems. :-)