As I continue to hack my way through the storyworld jungle, dual-wielding the Machete of Words and the Weedwhacker of Theory, it occurs to me that a more detailed example of what I’m talking about might be in order. It’s one thing to say you should have archetypical characters and unique imagery and… all that other stuff I mentioned. But it’s another to put those principles into practice.
I’m still mulling over what form that practice will take. It’s definitely going to be a storyworld of some sort, developed here in public, to serve as an example of the sorts of things I’m mentioning elsewhere on the blog. But will it be a pulp world of hi-tech spies and lizard-headed politicians? A realm of both swords AND sorcery? A storyworld focused on a small town in Idaho with a secret people have killed to keep?
Oh, that Idaho one actually sounds kind of intriguing…
I don’t know. I’m still mulling.
In the meantime, hand me that word-machete. I’ve still got some hacking to do.
