thoughts about writing
May. 20th, 2019 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inky_magpieSo I have this fantasy world in my head that I've been puttering around with for... well let's just say a long time. Its changed a lot over the years, but it's mostly been focused around three extremely plot resistant characters.
Grumpy, misanthrope who works as the brewer-of-potions at a hospital, Quinton
Quinton's hedonistic (adopted) brother, David
Wolf-shapeshifter lab-mate/ (female) best friend, Lilah. (Who's name has gone though SO MANY spelling variations :( for something that's said LIE-luh)
What I have setting wise has mostly focused on the hospital where Quinton and Lilah work but there is so much world out there. I have an entire non-earth planet to explore and I've covered maybe a thousand square kilometers.
I have roughly 1880-1910ish technology: steam-trains with rail expanding rapidly, gas lighting in some areas, assembly lines are starting up everywhere, cinema is in it's infancy, penicillin is being discovered/ has just been discovered.
Mirrors can be used to transport objects from one point to another and communicate over long distances.
Magic can be used to extend fuel, keep things cold/hot, heal the sick and injured, and help determine kinship and bind oaths.
Anthropology is becoming a thing as people are studying "if culture A does this woo-woo to preserve fresh milk, and culture B does this other thing, what do they have in common? what changes? if person A goes to live with family B, will their woo-woo still work?"
Several different species of shape shifters exist! Seals! Lions! Wolves!
Any animal that has a certain amount of intelligence can use magic! ( I haven't nailed this down, but they have to be language & tool using, social, & recognize themselves in the mirror. There's one or two more markers that a species has to check off but if the critter is able to problem solve like a five year old human they can do magic.)
All of this wonderful worldbuilding! Proto-plothooks to get snared on everywhere! Why, why, why!?! Do I keep focusing on one (1) jerk whose idea of fun and adventure is reading scientific journals?!
Grumpy, misanthrope who works as the brewer-of-potions at a hospital, Quinton
Quinton's hedonistic (adopted) brother, David
Wolf-shapeshifter lab-mate/ (female) best friend, Lilah. (Who's name has gone though SO MANY spelling variations :( for something that's said LIE-luh)
What I have setting wise has mostly focused on the hospital where Quinton and Lilah work but there is so much world out there. I have an entire non-earth planet to explore and I've covered maybe a thousand square kilometers.
I have roughly 1880-1910ish technology: steam-trains with rail expanding rapidly, gas lighting in some areas, assembly lines are starting up everywhere, cinema is in it's infancy, penicillin is being discovered/ has just been discovered.
Mirrors can be used to transport objects from one point to another and communicate over long distances.
Magic can be used to extend fuel, keep things cold/hot, heal the sick and injured, and help determine kinship and bind oaths.
Anthropology is becoming a thing as people are studying "if culture A does this woo-woo to preserve fresh milk, and culture B does this other thing, what do they have in common? what changes? if person A goes to live with family B, will their woo-woo still work?"
Several different species of shape shifters exist! Seals! Lions! Wolves!
Any animal that has a certain amount of intelligence can use magic! ( I haven't nailed this down, but they have to be language & tool using, social, & recognize themselves in the mirror. There's one or two more markers that a species has to check off but if the critter is able to problem solve like a five year old human they can do magic.)
All of this wonderful worldbuilding! Proto-plothooks to get snared on everywhere! Why, why, why!?! Do I keep focusing on one (1) jerk whose idea of fun and adventure is reading scientific journals?!
