worldbuilding, unnecessary?
Nov. 8th, 2007 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonimpY'know, if you make a blanket statement about writing which lumps everything under a few poorly executed examples, you're likely to irritate a bunch of writers. Heh.
I get that his reaction is most likely to the kind of thing that would make your novel read like a D&D manual, but calling worldbuilding in general dull, numbing, and unnecessary? What sort of writer does absolutely no worldbuilding? (Well, yes, I'm sure there are books that take place in a complete fog, but really.) For me, it's like character design and that incessant internal narrator; there's no freakin' OFF switch!!
The problem is not in worldbuilding - which is unavoidable - but in poor writing and infodumping.
I get that his reaction is most likely to the kind of thing that would make your novel read like a D&D manual, but calling worldbuilding in general dull, numbing, and unnecessary? What sort of writer does absolutely no worldbuilding? (Well, yes, I'm sure there are books that take place in a complete fog, but really.) For me, it's like character design and that incessant internal narrator; there's no freakin' OFF switch!!
The problem is not in worldbuilding - which is unavoidable - but in poor writing and infodumping.