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Show and Tell in Game of Thrones, Way of Kings.
By Evan Dahm.
George R.R. Martin’s
A Game of Thrones
and Brandon Sanderson’s
The Way of Kings
both take place in settings with seasons that work very differently from reality. With that convenient point of comparison, let’s look at how the two books go about introducing this item to the reader.
A Game of Thrones
:
“You are a young man, Tyrion,” Mormont said. “How many winters have you seen?”
He shrugged. “Eight, nine. I misremember.”
“And all of them short.”
“As you say, my lord.” He had been born in the dead of winter, a terrible cruel one that the maesters said had lasted near three years, but Tyrion’s first memories were of spring.
“When I was a boy, it was said that a long summer always meant a long winter to come. This summer has lasted
nine years
, Tyrion, and a tenth will soon be upon us. Think on that.”
“When
I
was a boy,” Tyrion replied, “my wet nurse told me that one day, if men were good, the gods would give the world a summer without ending. Perhaps we’ve been better than we thought
David Valencia
I’ve been doing so much world building at this point, I think I have discovered things throughout my process that might help someone. So I decided to do a post about it and I really hope someone will find this helpful. I’ve never written scifi (yet), but things that applies in fantasy, can be applied to that as well. I’m not specifically going to speak about building world in story that sets in real life, but it naturally needs world building too, just maybe not that much.
This is Bear Castle from my high fantasy WIP Fall and Rise of cor Mantgamia. It was the home of the protagonists.
When building a fictional world immersion is important (arguably the most important thing). You may have things in your world that everyone will know are not possible, yet you have to make your readers believe that the world is real. To do that you will need consistency. If you have logic behind your world, no matter how unrealistic the logic is, but you follow that logic in every situation, you will create the immersion. Including familial elements from our real world is a good idea, especially if you have a lot of magical or otherwise unreal elements. That makes it easie
70 Questions for World-Building
the murder of elijah patel
indie matthews, head reporter for the granite bay tribune, has just landed the story that might get her into the journalism school of her dreams. some kid had to die for it, but people die every day. his is the prime example of a murder mystery; if she can solve this, she's almost guaranteed admission.
only two people stand in her way: a delinquent who needs an extracurricular to stay in her new school, and the protective sister of the deceased. indie's supposed to work with both of them to get the answers she needs, but one of them harbors a secret that just might bring this whole operation to its knees.
current stage:
edits / rewrite
first draft:
finished 1.9.2021 at 73k words
genres:
thriller, murder mystery
kaleidoscope
in this choose-your-own-adventure story, you play as the princess mariela os ag'ratha. you wake up on the morning of your choosing day with one decision: will you stay in the palace and begin your reign as queen, or will you leave to explore your country?
in this adventure game of a story, experiment with betrayal, magic, tyranny, and everything in between.
current stage:
first d
Hi! Do you have any guides/tips for worldbuilding? Like, for beginners, or when one is at the very start. I have some basic things, but every time I try to go into it and branch it out, I get stuck. It's been months. I have no idea what to focus on. I also realised I don't even have many ideas to work with... At this point I don't even know if this is a creative problem or something else entirely. I've tried focusing on 1 city first, but I still get stuck. How do I get it moving? Thank you!
Asked by Anonymous
Struggling with World Building
Quick tips:
1 - Plot out your story first, as much as you can. If you don’t know the needs of your story, it’s difficult to flesh out the world.
2 - Start with your “main” setting and sets, or in other words the places where the most scenes take place.
3 - Use real places as inspiration for your setting and sets. Research places to use, save pictures, watch videos about those places.
4 - Don’t feel like you have to flesh every detail out before you start writing. Sometimes it’s better to go in with a light framework and add to it as you write.
Links to past posts:
Five Things to Help You Descr