NaNoWriMo Dreamwidth Writers

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think
of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

- Mercedes Lackey




Today starts our daily countdown to the start of NaNoWriMo. Ten days, Nano Writers! Today, we're going to work with a visualization exercise to describe our story world using our ( five_senses... )

And in case you missed it the first time: ten days to the start of NaNoWriMo, Nano Writer! Tomorrow, we'll bring this week's work all together and create a story "bible." Until then, keep writing!

The world only exists in your eyes - your conception of it.
You can make it as big or as small as you want to.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald





With less than two weeks left until the start of NaNoWriMo, world building may be a daunting, perhaps impossible, task. But fear not Nano Writer, let's apply the principle of working from small things to ( BIG )

And it's getting to be about time to talk about time! Tomorrow! So until then Nano Writer, keep writing!

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men.
Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely.
Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

- Georg C. Lichtenberg



It's Day 28 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - What Did We Leave Out? - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Notebooks in hand, let's read today's ( exercise )

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

- Anthony Brandt



It's Day 23 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - Revisiting Culture - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Time for notebooks and today's ( exercise )

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

- Confucius



It's Day 21 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - Flora and Fauna - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Crack open those notebooks and check out today's ( exercise )

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

- Steven Wright


It's Day 5 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over Day 5: The Map from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Get out those notebooks and pens and pencils and start today's ( exercise )

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 )

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

- Mark Twain



Welcome to Day 1 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. To begin, read Day 1: Climate & Variety from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Then get out your notebook and complete the ( exercise )