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Worldbuilding Gone Haywire
The next scene for Thrushbeard is not coming and not coming and so I've sat my patootie down in my chair and have printed out what I have for TSV and am going through it and writing myself a "File for my Sanity" (aka cheat sheet) so that I can know what street names I have, what people names I've used so far, etc. etc.
For character names, I have approx. 18 crucial main players, and then I have 18 other fairly important characters (although there will probably end up being more in this category), and then I have the amazing 97 (NINETY-SEVEN)-ish names that I've dropped here and there for worldbuilding purposes (people's names!!!)...which is only what I have so far. (I still have to comb through the remaining 25 pages or so and this is only in the first 50 pages.)
However, I will say this in my defense: most of the names are absolute throw-aways. And I think it comes across that way. But more than anything, I'm astounded that I was able to come up with so many names! Good Heavens!
Oh, and I have a little less than 60 streets or landmarks named...just in the capital city. Good Heavens. I'm just a leeetle trepidatious about making the map for this city. And I'm kicking myself because apparently I didn't label the countries I'd named on the Southern Continent on the map itself. The clues I've left myself make it easy to remember which one is which, but it really a rather curious reverse engineering project. Fun, though!
Mood: I ought to go to sleep.
Music: HP3
Thought: Spiritual direction tomorrow! Yaaay!
The next scene for Thrushbeard is not coming and not coming and so I've sat my patootie down in my chair and have printed out what I have for TSV and am going through it and writing myself a "File for my Sanity" (aka cheat sheet) so that I can know what street names I have, what people names I've used so far, etc. etc.
For character names, I have approx. 18 crucial main players, and then I have 18 other fairly important characters (although there will probably end up being more in this category), and then I have the amazing 97 (NINETY-SEVEN)-ish names that I've dropped here and there for worldbuilding purposes (people's names!!!)...which is only what I have so far. (I still have to comb through the remaining 25 pages or so and this is only in the first 50 pages.)
However, I will say this in my defense: most of the names are absolute throw-aways. And I think it comes across that way. But more than anything, I'm astounded that I was able to come up with so many names! Good Heavens!
Oh, and I have a little less than 60 streets or landmarks named...just in the capital city. Good Heavens. I'm just a leeetle trepidatious about making the map for this city. And I'm kicking myself because apparently I didn't label the countries I'd named on the Southern Continent on the map itself. The clues I've left myself make it easy to remember which one is which, but it really a rather curious reverse engineering project. Fun, though!
Mood: I ought to go to sleep.
Music: HP3
Thought: Spiritual direction tomorrow! Yaaay!
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