Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 8:27:44 GMT
The writer knows that he must pay attention to the setting of the story . Over time I realized that this setting influences the story and characters a lot, so it is an element that I believe should be taken care of first, compared to everything else. Not only. In my opinion, world building facilitates the work of writing , as I wrote some time ago, because it gives us the possibility of drawing on a sort of warehouse of ideas, of creating spin-offs, sequels, etc. Think of Tolkien and the immense work that he carried out for years. Creating a world, however, is not limited to the fantasy genre, but to every narrative genre. Even if we write about our reality, we still need to create a detailed setting, establish rules, represent the scenes of the story with actions and descriptions. But why is the creation of an imaginary or real world so important? I thought about it and came up with 5 reasons to create a setting .
Set the reader, not just the story We always talk about the setting of the novel, but never about the reader. Ultimately, the world we imagined creates a connection between reader and Special Data story . There were times when I couldn't settle into the novel or story I was reading. Why? Because some element was missing. Now I couldn't say which one, perhaps the descriptions were lacking or non-existent, perhaps the characters were not well delineated. The only certainty was that that story could have taken place in any place and time. World building therefore allows the story to be identified , it is a sort of identity card of the novel, which immediately allows the reader to understand the scenario. Maintain cohesion between characters and world Every people has its own land and is influenced by it, just as every land is influenced by the population that inhabits it. There is therefore a close bond between peoples and their country, their world. All cultures have developed with their own characteristics, which would have been different in other lands.
This means that creating a world for our novel, perfecting it as much as possible, maintains the cohesion that must exist between its inhabitants, the characters, and the world itself, exactly as happens in reality. Create a recognizable culture Each world is a mixture of cultures and each portion of that world is characterized by its own specific culture. If we think of a Native American, we know how to recognize their culture. The same goes for a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Maori, a Sami, a Japanese, an American from the USA, etc. We must therefore be able to create that recognizability that occurs in our reality and this, obviously, is even more important if we write fantasy and science fiction. Tolkien's hobbits are a recognizable population, for example. But so are the characters in World Without End , which is a historical novel.
Set the reader, not just the story We always talk about the setting of the novel, but never about the reader. Ultimately, the world we imagined creates a connection between reader and Special Data story . There were times when I couldn't settle into the novel or story I was reading. Why? Because some element was missing. Now I couldn't say which one, perhaps the descriptions were lacking or non-existent, perhaps the characters were not well delineated. The only certainty was that that story could have taken place in any place and time. World building therefore allows the story to be identified , it is a sort of identity card of the novel, which immediately allows the reader to understand the scenario. Maintain cohesion between characters and world Every people has its own land and is influenced by it, just as every land is influenced by the population that inhabits it. There is therefore a close bond between peoples and their country, their world. All cultures have developed with their own characteristics, which would have been different in other lands.
This means that creating a world for our novel, perfecting it as much as possible, maintains the cohesion that must exist between its inhabitants, the characters, and the world itself, exactly as happens in reality. Create a recognizable culture Each world is a mixture of cultures and each portion of that world is characterized by its own specific culture. If we think of a Native American, we know how to recognize their culture. The same goes for a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Maori, a Sami, a Japanese, an American from the USA, etc. We must therefore be able to create that recognizability that occurs in our reality and this, obviously, is even more important if we write fantasy and science fiction. Tolkien's hobbits are a recognizable population, for example. But so are the characters in World Without End , which is a historical novel.