Standing Worldbuilding Post

[guardiansverse]

This is a post to talk general worldbuilding, either by posting questions/musings about your own world, by presenting questions/prompts for other authors to comment on, or for general discussion of worldbuilding as an exercise.

1. Discussion below in thread format. Anonymous comments welcome.
2. If you are talking about something currently being posted to FFA, please clearly mark for any possible spoilers!
3. Please don't post plot or character questions here: take it to the Plotting and Brainstorming Post. Similarly we have a Concrit Post for writing you want constructive comments on.
4. Keep in mind authors' preferences as expressed in our introduction post.
5. FFA by-rules apply: don't be an asshole.

Comments

[sigridharem]

Oh yes, I've definitely bounced off books where I just felt like I was missing vital information in the first couple chapters. I think I slightly prefer information overload to that, because at least I can skim through an infodump and come back to it later if necessary.

(I say this but honestly my worldbuilding process can best be described as 'establish characters, figure out what world they're in eventually')

[summerstars]

Yeah, definitely, that'd be my preference too, even if it's clunky.

haha, I have a tendency to go ham with worldbuilding - I have one original world where it's basically all worldbuilding and I think it'd be awkward to actually write anything in it, so... the wordlbuilding alone is the point for me there.

For the catpeople thing, I do have some stuff figured out, but far less than I usually do, honestly! And then I was stuck like... how much do I shove in early, people don't think/talk about random facts just at the drop of a hat... So you're left with introducing worldbuilding in a dribble, as a writer, and hope it's enough for the reader.