Let's Build a World: Day 3 - Mood and Setting

[ladyseishou]

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

- Bill Watterson



It's Day 3 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over Day 3: Mood & Setting from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Let's get out our notebooks and complete the exercise:

Close your eyes and think about what kind of feeling you like to have when you write or read. Write down four words that fit into that feeling: two adjectives, a verb, and a noun. Now return to the page with your list of climates and emotions. Do any of them match up? If they do, you have your climate. If not, try to find closest-match words.

If you spend 10 solid minutes thinking about this and still can't decide, pick two climates that express moods you like. You can make up your mind later, and you can even build your world with both climates containing equally probable sites for your story.

You might find the following websites helpful for completing this exercise:

Theme affects Setting

Some Thoughts on the Nature of Mood in Writing

Creating Mood & Atmosphere - written from a theatrical drama POV but has some great advice.

Say Nano Writer, did today's exercise get you in the writing mood? Share your thoughts and links! See you tomorrow!