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Jumping Into The QuickSilver
If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you will know that I am currently working on a series of novels.
The world in which the bulk of the story takes place is a fantasy world hidden within a mirror. I’m still very much working out the finer points, but this is the basic premise for the world.
CREATING YOUR OWN WORLD CAN BE MORE FREEING
The thing is, although in some respects, a fantasy world is more freeing because you can basically make up what you want the world to be like. But in doing this, I’m now realising that there are a lot of the little details that I now have to iron out and clarify. This is the difficulty with inventing your own world.
The advantage to setting your story in the ‘real world’ is that the finer details and societal rules are already set in place. This is something that I am now having to work at addressing.
I GET TO MAKE THE RULES
In the QuickSilver, it is up to me to make the rules. I create the laws and belief systems; the environment and weather systems. The social hierarchy, or lack thereof.
Actually, what I am learning through this process is that in some ways, it is actually easier to write about the real world, but if I’m…
