Worldbuilding is FUN!!

[jpskewedthrone]

It's also hard. But today, I wrote the scene where they arrive in the new city. And I discovered that I enjoy making up new shit. *grin* A whole new culture to explore! Well, not really. They have to be relatively close to Amenkor, but I enjoy pointing out the differences. And of course their reception in the city isn't quite what they expected (it never is in books). The chapter just kept going and going and going (I caught the kaygo disease, except this is midbook as opposed to the end; perhaps a variant on the strain?). But I finished the chapter and now feel the incredible urge to continue on with chapter 10, even though my head hurts from all the intense writing.

Do other people feel that way while writing? Your head aches, but you're so into it that you feel like you can write until your fingers are just little nubbins and your head explodes?

Anyway, I really need to get ready for the gym. I also need to go see if the fitting on that suit is good. Here's the wordage!

60,975 / 100,000 (61.0%)

Vacant Throne

PS--I HATE the fact that the writing is going so good right now and yet school is about to start. AAARRRGGGHHHH!!! (and not the good pirate type either)

Comments

[nanne.livejournal.com]

Please, school--don't remind me!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

>I caught the kaygo disease...

Infamy. Posterity. Yea.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Amen on the argh!

Yeah...those massive writing sessions are the ones I call white fire. Rare, but precious.

[lhynard.livejournal.com]

I, too, love the world/culture-building aspect of writing. Like you, I alos find that the cultures oftentimes invent themselves. The last time I intended my character to ride around a corner and stop at a house, he ended up stuck in a toll line and passing a windmill and learning all about how the windmill is used to lift water from the bottom of the cliffs to the farmlands atop. Like you said, sometimes you are drop-dead tired yet feel that you cannot stop.

[storytellersjem.livejournal.com]

One of the best reasons to write fantasy, I feel.