#WordWeavers #Writing 25-04-05 What's the most important thing about world-building for you?
A consistent logic.
I write fantasy primarily. It may sound odd, but Newton's Laws of Motion are a guiding framework for how I work through the logic in my stories. Not just in terms of physical fights (such as Parthia leveraging against the creature's mass to gain a mechanical advantage in order to snap it's neck), but also in social/societal aspects.
In an overly simplified concept. Think of a village as a table with double handful of spheres on it. Glass marbles, tempered ball bearings, lead musket balls, paint balls, golf balls, etc, etc. Now take a decorative stone ball from back in the lat 90's when the Nu-Age crowd suddenly got obsessed with platonic solids. Rolling that stone sphere into the other spheres represents a person or event that changes the momentum within the system (the village). Each existing sphere (villagers) moves according to the dictates of the material it's made of (the individual personalities of the villagers).
Am I making sense to anyone, or should I have stopped at "A consistent logic." for my answer?
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