December 30: mapping worlds and fandoms, cont'd (for joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspost]

These last maps are for worlds that have no accompanying story of any sort... or at least, not yet. Let's jump right in!


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December 27: mapping worlds and fandoms, cont'd (for joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspost]

This is the world of The Sum of Things, my unfinished NaNoWriMo attempt from 2004. A bunch of the world-building is older than that, though. I have printed files from my family's first computer, which I believe we replaced when I was sixteen, so I probably started noodling ( Read more... )

December 24: mapping worlds and fandoms, cont'd (for joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspostWhen I was a kid, I used to walk our family dog in the rain sometimes and look at the little runoff streams that formed along the sides of the streets, racing along until they encountered a storm drain or, in one case, poured through a little concrete channel under a hedge and ( Read more... )

December 22: mapping worlds and fandoms, cont'd (for joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspostThis world happened because of a high school writing assignment. No, seriously! I wrote a really terrible story about a woman and her lover fleeing into the western wilderness, and a confrontation they had with corrupt local law enforcement which ended when it turned out the ( Read more... )

December 21: mapping worlds and fandoms, cont'd (for joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspostMore maps, yay ( Read more... )

December 19: mapping worlds and fandoms, cont'd (for joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspostI talked about mapping fandoms (or, more accurately, NOT mapping them) yesterday. Today I am going to talk about mapping original secondary worlds ( Read more... )

December 18: mapping worlds and fandoms (for joyeuce01) [Tumblr crosspostHeh. This one requires some visual aids, I think ( Read more... )