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World Building

After a few conversations with a co-worker about his disdain for certain fantasy tropes , I asked for an interesting world . I didn't ask for an entire story set in his ideal fantasy setting , simply a world that would be interesting for a story to exist in. It's been a while since that initial conversation and he's pitched interesting ideas , but I've just realized that all of them take place in a science fiction setting. Although I never mentioned that the world had to have a fantasy theme, it's what I was expecting. Due this and recent events , I'm dabbling in a bit of world building to vent ideas. As a starting point, I'm defining some of the inhabitants of the world . I'm not sure if these would be considered races or a specific culture of a species , but they're definitely the people involved. While the descriptions are vague and don't state this, people defined so far impress upon me a notion of a Western fantasy realm that has b

Change of pace or format?

It has been a while since I last posted anything, but I don't plan on giving up writing a mini-review of The Little Battlers . However, I haven't had sufficient free time or interest  write anything for a while now. Inspired by a co-worker, idea posts might be just the thing to help me out of this slump without demanding too much investment. As a supporter of the theory of morphic resonance , I'm more interested in spreading concepts than gaining recognition. I recently discovered an interesting store that sells indie books, or dōjin , while checking the website of an artist that I follow. To my surprise a few of the artists that I follow also sold books through this store, even one using a pen name . Although the language is foreign to me, the visuals expressed are familiar. After successfully expanding my display/storage area, my desire to build models was renewed. Even though this was the most passion I've had in a while, it was only enough for me to window -