Notices by Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) (golgaloth@writing.exchange)

#WorldBuilding: What major, historical event has recently changed your world? Who remembers how it was before?

#Writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev

A mug shot.

These beautiful pieces, from the Minoan Civilisation, are over 3,700 years old. There are modern mugs not as beautifully decorated or coloured as these.

Heraklion Museum, Crete, Greece

#History #art #pottery #Greece

Not that we should be worried, or anything.

#Climate #ClimateEmergency

Who is strategically undervalued in your world? Who is deliberately kept away from positions of power, authority and respect?

#WorldBuilding #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev #authodons

@TarkabarkaHolgy Schools and school grounds are prevalent throughout a city. You're seldom more than 200metres from one in any shopping district.

Fucking seriously?

#AI #books #writing

You character should be different at the end of the story than at the beginning. What do they want to change? What do they need to change? Why will there be a conflict between those two things?

#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #authodons

#WritingPrompt #WorldBuilding

What has been erased from the official history of your world? By whom?

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Women fought topless as clothing was thought to be a major disease vector. Getting threads of clothing into a wound might cause an infection, so these women definitely wanted to cut each other.

What strange rules exist in your world that might seem odd today?

#WorldBuilding #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev #authodons

Is magic a trivial thing on your world, or something more serious? Who might see it the opposite way?

#magic #fantasy #AmWriting #writing #GameDev #ttrpg #dnd

Your characters realise they have been working for the bad guy all along.

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No, that's much better.

#HeatWave #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #weather

@jeffowski Maybe put this up instead: https://writing.exchange/@golgaloth/112662845936254090

An old and broken machine suddenly begins working.

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What's the greatest cultural insight you've had when creating your world?

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Have you ever had to change anything because you felt it was no longer relevant?

I wrote a story a few years ago and I'm polishing it up now for publication and noticing how a few references have dated soooo quickly.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #writing #authodons

#writerscoffeeclub
Should books include a content warning?

Books already contain content warnings by how they are categorised, their cover images, blurb, etc. Adult, Young Adult, Children's, Romance, etc.

This is where the author can give the reader a good idea as to what's inside. If you feel the need for anything more specific, you probably haven't written your back cover (or web-page description) properly, or you need to find a better cover image.

And today on No Shit Sherlock:

Study suggests less conformity leads to more innovation

An interesting read nonetheless.

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-conformity.html #science #innovation

Someone reminded me it's time to post some alternatives to Adobe software:

#Adobe #Software #productivity #OpenSource #Free

One of the weird things I find with writing Fantasy is that it takes sooooooo long to get anywhere. This is a series of maps showing the time it used to take to travel across America from New York. Days to get anywhere, even with installed roads, in 1800, then down to weeks to reach Chicago.

How would this affect the way you draw your maps?

#AmWriting #writing #fantasy