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WORLDBUILDING THROUGH CULTURE

Writing a Secondary World book or series, and need some help constructing your setting?

Worldbuilding is more than just maps!

Creating a believable secondary world, with consistent internal logic, language, taboos, and politics can be tricky.

Luckily, this workbook is here to help you devise the best possible setting for your #SFF story.

Based on a lecture series I used to do one be before the pandemic, this is a workbook that's really meant and designed to WORK.

Write in it, paste in pictures, doodle, add extra notes or change your mind and erase things!

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When you talk do you use gesticulation to make your point? . . I think I do, but not knowingly. . . gesticulation (jes-TICK-yoo-lay-shun), noun . A movement of hands or arms that accompanies speech, usually for emphasis. . . #wordplaywednesdays #lovablelibrary #lovablewords #wordswordswords #vocabulary #homeschoollifestyle #homeschool #homeschooler #homeschoolmom #wordsforwriters #writersofig #writerscommunity #writersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BvhnIRenulD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kv1jm9gpfz2c

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More words like Komorebi 木漏れ日

crepuscular rays (or god rays)-- a streak of light that seems to radiate from the sun shortly before or after sunset when sunlight shines through a break in the clouds or a notch in the horizon line and illuminates atmospheric haze or dust particles.  

Backstays of the sun – a nautical term, from the fact that backstays that brace the mast of a sailing ship converge in a similar way

Cloud breaks

Jacob's Ladder

Ropes of Maui – (originally. taura a Maui) from the Maori tale of Maui Potiki restraining the sun with ropes to make the days longer

Shafts of light

Sun drawing water – from the ancient Greek belief that sunbeams drew water into the sky (an early description of evaporation)

Sunbeams

Sunburst

Volumetric lighting (used by the computer graphics industry)

God rays (used by the computer graphics industry)

Fingers of God

Dappled sunlight

I thought maybe someone could use them as synomyms for their wtiing or something.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If someone wants to look at the site I got my info from

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Writing a #SecondaryWorld book or series, and need some help constructing your setting? #Worldbuilding is more than just maps! Creating a believable secondary world, with consistent internal logic, language, taboos, and politics can be tricky. Luckily, this workbook is here to help you devise the best possible setting for your #SFF story. Based on a lecture series I used to do one be before the pandemic, this is a workbook that's really meant and designed to WORK. Write in it, paste in pictures, doodle, add extra notes or change your mind and erase things! Get your copy here

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Now available in print, and as a downloadable PDF. LINK TO BOOKSTORE IN BIO About the book: WORLDBUILDING THROUGH CULTURE: A WORKBOOK FOR STORYTELLERS Worldbuilding is more than just maps! Creating a believable secondary world, with consistent internal logic, idioms, taboos, and politics can be tricky. Luckily, this workbook is here to help you devise the best possible setting for your story! Filled with thought exercises, explanations, question lists, and lots of space to jot down your own ideas, these pages will soon hold the shape of your own worlds. The workbook is divided into chapters, with note-taking space, for: INTRODUCTION TO CULTUREBUILDING FINDING YOUR STARTING POINT THE BIG QUESTIONS THE SMALL QUESTIONS THE SLIDING SCALE LANGUAGE AND DIALOGUE CHARACTER SKETCHES . . . #amwriting #worldbuilding #WritingCommunity #WritingTips #Writer #WritingPrompts #amwritingfantasy #Write #WordsForWriters #WritingBlog #WritersofInstagram #WritersofInsta #AuthorsofInstagram #AuthorsofInsta #WorldbuildingTips #WritingGuide #WritingHowTo #WritingHelp #WritingGuidebook #WritingSelfHelp #ProTip #WritingProTip #WritingWorkbook #HowToWrite #WritingBlog #WritingClasses #AmWritingSciFi #Fantasy #SciFi #WorldbuildingTools #AmWritingABook https://www.instagram.com/p/ClwUx8yJc1s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Look what arrived in the mail today! I got the finals of my #WorldbuildingThroughCulture workbook from @ingramsparkbooks, and dang, does it look good! ABOUT THE BOOK #Worldbuilding is more than just maps! Creating a believable secondary world, with consistent internal logic, language, taboos, and politics can be tricky. Luckily, this workbook is here to help you devise the best possible setting for your #SFF story. Based on a lecture series I used to do one be before the pandemic, this is a workbook that's really meant and designed to WORK. Write in it, paste in pictures, doodle, add extra notes or change your mind and erase things! LINK TO MY BOOKSTORE IN BIO . . . #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmWritingSFF #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSciFi #AmWritingFiction #WordsForWriters #WorldbuildingTips #writingresource #writingbook #bookonwriting #writingguide #creativewriting #booksaboutwriting #portalfantasy #secondaryworlds #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefidtion #specfic #fantasy (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClUKgLtvJ67/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Working as #CritiquePartner for a #writer friend is one of the greatest joys of being in the #WritingCommunity. You get to read a story before anyone else, and you have the privilege of helping them make it the best it can be! Visit @storybilderapp for the full article. . . . #editing #WordsForWriters #AmEditing #AmWriting #writing #WritingBlog #writingspace #writingtip #WritingTips #writersofinstagram #WritingAdvice #AuthorsofInstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CVEPC3rAjI_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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@NaNoWriMo / #NaNoWriMo is here! It's time to sit down and craft those perfectly curated little stories, right? WRONG. It's time to sit down and just GET IT ON THE PAGE. No matter how messy, ugly, and not-right it is. I say this so that you come into NaNoWriMo with a clear understanding of what it is EXACTLY that you are creating and that it will be, in all honestly, a bit crap. And you know what? THAT IS FANTASTIC. ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE A BIT CRAP. The truth of the matter is… first drafts are always a bit crap. In fact, first drafts are MEANT to be a bit crap. That’s the nature of first drafts. And the reason you allow your first draft to be a bit crap is because the important part of creating a first draft is not to write a polished, perfect, incredible novel. The point of a first draft is to get the STORY onto the PAGE. All the magic of tone and form and style happens in editing. But all the magic of running and jumping and loving and hating and living and dying and killing and screaming and kissing … that happens in the first draft. And it is supposed to sweep you away and plunge you into your world and make your chest ache and your stomach twist and your eyes swim and your mouth grin. And you can’t do that if you’re self-censoring every time you pick up the metaphorical (or not) pen. So allow your first draft to be a bit crap. Because fearing to write because you’re going to be a bad writer is silly; if you hate everything you put on the page, if your inner editor cringes at each typo, then how will any of it get ONTO the page? Embrace that your NaNo is going to be a bit crap and use that as permission to keep writing. Think: “Oh, well, this scene is a bit crap. But that’s okay, because I can edit later! LATER! For now I will follow my fingers and my imagination wherever they shall lead and it will be GLORIOUS.” So there it is. There’s my advice for NaNo. BE GLORIOUSLY, WONDERFULLY, UNASHAMEDLY A BIT CRAP.  #writingadvice #amwriting #writing #wordsforwriters #writersofinstagram #authoraodinstagram #author #JMFrey #wattpad #wattpadstars#nano #nanowrimo20 #nanowrimo2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDV9Y6goUJ/?igshid=y9egw309wp3r

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A new #WORDSFORWRITERS post is up. I've returned to a conversation with the editor of #THESKYLARKSSAGA, @nightwolf182 . In this video we talk about how much we love #enemiestolovers stories, how #TheSkylarksSong became one, how #Skylark became a #Duology, and how @reuts.pub went about acquiring these books from me. Link in bio. #WritingHowTo #WritingTips #WritingAdvice #WritingCommunity #writingcrew #amwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/CDO3m2fgMRy/?igshid=11ehdgp42wowq

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My new #WORDSFORWRITERS for writers article is up on my blog. (Link in bio) This one outlines the different kinds of narrative conflict that you can use to structure your narrative, and distinguishes between external and internal conflict. This will also be my last words for writers until at least the end of the year. I'm putting the series on Hiatus (unless I get a really juicy question from one of you that inspires me to write another article asap). I'm doing this because I have a lot of other things to focus on coming up including the reissue of some of my novels in print, and the publication of #TheWomanWhoFellThroughTime to focus on. And I don't want to half-ass this advice series. I'm still taking questions if you have them, and I'm still available for one on one #mentorship @mentorlyofficial and for editing and individual document reviews and pitch package sessions on @thesidehustlestudio https://www.instagram.com/p/CEFE6u_J49m/?igshid=1gfi8vv594ics

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In light of everything that's happening, I thought it was time to revive this #WordsForWriters article from 2014 (with a few small updates). "My Writing Sucks and I Hate Everything. Or, Being a Writer While Human" is now live over on #Wattpad. (Link in Bio) #writingtips #writingadvice #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #authorsofIG #JMFrey #Protip #writingtip #keeponauthoring #writingadviceblog #writingblog www.jmfrey.net | @scifrey | scifrey.tumblr.com   https://www.instagram.com/p/B_SeXO8ABN_/?igshid=9bdt6rszdz63

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Ever wanted #authorfriends of your very own? Here are some dos and don'ts to help you make some! (Link in bio) #wordsforwriters #writing #WritingHowTo #WritersLife #AuthorAdvice #WritingAdvice https://www.instagram.com/p/CC9DI2agk_K/?igshid=czjlniypcs58

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This week's #WordsForWriters is a bit different! I sat down with @nightwolf182, the editor and publisher at @reuts.pub who acquired #TheAccidentalTurnSeries. We talk about the genesis of the series, and how it was acquired, and the process we went through turning what was suppose to be a stand-alone book into a trilogy in four parts. Link in bio. #wordsforwriters #WritingHowTo #writingnovels #WritingCommunity #WritingAdvice #writingblog #wriyingvlog https://www.instagram.com/p/CCqtjMigw0d/?igshid=1xjdocc4ft8b1

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Today's #WORDSFORWRITERS is all about the techniques I use to flip my brainspace between writing Prose and writing for the Screen, as well as a quick primer on what each format requires from a writer. Link in bio. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingtips #howto #amscreenwriting #amwritingnovels #writing #author #authortips #amauthoring www.jmfrey.net | @scifrey   https://www.instagram.com/p/CCY_sKmgxj9/?igshid=1mztjua0dnbva

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New #WORDSFORWRITERS - The Value of @NaNoWriMo With Camp NaNoWriMo 2020 just around the corner, I wanted to revive this article for those of you thinking of jumping in. Link in Bio #CampNaNo #WritingAdvice #WritingCommunity #WritingTips #HowToWrite #BeingAWriter #writingadviceblog https://www.instagram.com/p/CBQ1ZgQgabR/?igshid=5u5b9daemu49

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It's Wednesday, fellow #Writers Which means it's time for another #WORDSFORWRITERS. This one is a submitted question about that weird feeling we all get that we may be too old or too inexperienced to start a writing career. And how that's all nonsense! Follow the link to my Wattpad profile to find my “Words For Writers” series.  #writingadvice #writingblog #amwriting #wattpad #wattpadstar #howtowrite #writingcommunity www.jmfrey.net | @scifrey | scifrey.tumblr.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-o-UZAhl0/?igshid=m6kitgww8pln