Can't sleep, catching up with Patricia's blog; when I got to
https://pcwrede.com/pcw-wp/rolling-along/
this comment caught my eye:
I have to be careful with lost interest. . . . . when writing,
it generally means I think the next scene will be hard to write,
and I’m shirking.
Which reminded me that Vorjack has been sitting on his bed with one
shoe on for decades because the next scene is well above my pay grade,
for two reasons. This is the chapter in which he realizes that the
teen-aged flibbertygibbet is more than she lets on, and characters are
my weakest point. And I really, really need to know at least a little
bit about nineteenth-century farming before I describe the witches'
model farm. I know just enough about farming to know how ignorant I
am. (Which is more than I can say for some published writers!)
It doesn't help that I know how the story comes out; I even summarized
it in a cinquenta.
And it *really* doesn't help that I've discovered that I'm really a
non-fiction writer.
https://pcwrede.com/pcw-wp/plot-situation-and-incident-event/
and its comments are, among other things, about how world-building and situations and events and characters all cause each other, which
reminded me that I created an entire planet by having the protagonist
of "Manstealers" wonder how his kidnappers had learned as much
"Theralithian" as they had without learning that the Theralithian
settlers still spoke North Lanxtrian Vulgate.
I'm sure published fiction writers also find single words and phrases
dragging in a long tail of worldbuilding.
--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
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