Session 7: Worldbuilding

[waldzell]

Announcements

The fourth and last assignment will be posted in a friends-locked entry after this post. Anyone who plans to complete the course through the fanfic option instead, please leave a comment to any assignment entry with a link leading to your fanfic.

Worldbuilding

Comments

[sefilin]

1. Freeport by Maldoror comes to mind. Gundam Wing. It was good because there was consideration given to the physics, social structure and politics of the world and details provided that made it real in a way that worlds that are unconsidered or unresearched never are. Plus it was a world based on anarchy, which was at least as fascinating as Duo and Wufei's story, if not more so

[reynardine]

Silver and Gold (Naruto) is a recent example of what I thought was a good sense of setting. The author (deralte) set a lot of the action in Iwagakure (Rock nins' village), which hasn't been shown in canon. She takes into consideration things like commerce (what goods would they carry that the Leaf village might not have?) and culture (their chunin test is, so far, quite a bit harsher than the one seen in canon). Good descriptive passages.

Setting is difficult for me because description is not one of my better writing skills. With fanfic, if you are using a canon setting, you often can cheat and not describe as much because people reading the fic usually have some sense of what the place looks like from the main source. But, in AU fic, a lot of time settings are altered, and therefore have to be described in more detail without interrupting the action/flow of a story