worldbuilding, unnecessary?

[dragonimp]

Y'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.

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[lynx212.livejournal.com]

Your question - What sort of writer does absolutely no worldbuilding?

My thoughts as a response to the above question are as follows:

1) The sort of writer that has no vision (or a very limited one)
2) The kind of writer that has a novel that rings so horribly familiar and cliche that you put it down after forcing yourself to read the first 3 chapters just to give it a fair shot
3) And last but not least *shudder* ...the kind of author that lacks growth and creativity

Not trying to put him down but that's my opinion ... I can't see how one can avoid wordbuilding altogether *shrugs*

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

Same here. I'd hate to see a novel without worldbuilding c_c;.