We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.

- Will Rogers



It's Day 30 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. The last day! Stephanie Bryant's post for Day 30 advises everyone to "take a break" today as the exercises were originally meant to be completed the month before NaNoWriMo begins. But we are not writers to rest on their laurels - are we? We shall march on to our next goal and... (looks around as a cold veil of silence falls over the room)...

Okay... we've built a world! That's cause to celebrate! So let's par-tay... ( come_on_in )

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 )

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



It's Day 26 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - Anti-What If? - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Time for notebooks! And today's ( exercise )

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.
This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

- Edvard Munch



It's Day 24 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - Mood II - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Open up those notebooks and read today's ( exercise )

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

- Oscar Wilde



It's Day 22 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - Revisiting Geography - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Maps and notebooks today and of course today's ( exercise )

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is-full of surprises.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer



It's Day 20 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - Plot Hook Day - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Time for your notebooks and today's ( exercise )

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



It's Day 18 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - Speculation and Society - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Notebooks ready? Now for today's ( exercise )

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

- Eden Phillpotts



It's Day 16 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over - More Speculation - from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Let's open up those notebooks and read today's ( exercise )

Education is the transmission of civilization.

- Ariel and Will Durant



It's Day 14 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over: Education from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. School is starting up again for many Nano Writers and today's topic couldn't be more timely! Time for our notebooks and today's ( exercise )

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

- William Hazlitt



It's Day 12 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over Day 12: What If from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Time to get out your notebook and consider today's ( exercise )