And then there was light . . .
Many different paths may have brought you here (and you have many more paths to follow) but rest here a moment and think about the world around your creative endeavors.
Some of you may already know the term worldbuilding, and if you did before (or do now after looking at the link), you may still be wondering how that applies to your current creative endeavors.
Let’s try to picture a variety of projects through this lens of worldbuilding:
The rough plot you have developed is leaning towards a big town setting but you’ve lived in a small town your whole life. What makes big city living different from country living? What do you need to know about your world so that your plot can grow?
You were working on a poem and found that your descriptions have an almost otherworldly feel. How could you bring that out further? Could you try to actually describe the surroundings using all the senses? Are the particular words you are choosing setting a particular tone?
After going through a pile of old photographs, you decide to start interviewing your older relatives to find out more about the people in them. What kind of questions do you need to ask to understand the world that existed outside of those photographs?
You’ve compiled stacks of ephemera for collage and notice that they each have numbers. How could you connect them?
These are just a few ways you could think about worldbuilding. How else could you explore the scope of your project?
8 - There can be many different ways to start visualizing your world. But maybe clustering ideas together could be a good way to start?
19 - How would your world look if it was one scene from a play?
24 - Do you think you have a world that might lend itself to gamification?