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13 years ago
Thank you everyone who responded to my previous entry, I read them all!
First off, I didn't think "head-world" would be that misinterpretable of a concept, but I got a few people questioning what I meant (from various places I posted this to). Let me clarify; by "head-world" I mean a fictitious world or universe you have created characters for, stories for, environments for, etc. For example, the entire world where George R. R. Martin's books A Song of Ice and Fire take place are his "head-world"; the Harry Potter universe is J. K. Rowling's "head world"; etc.
I have a few more questions for you guys (which I will answer as well):
1. What do you plan on doing with your head-world? Why did you create it/them?
I have two main ones and I created them because they were concepts or stories I haven't seen, but would like to see. They also center around topics I like to think about, are important to me, and want to discuss creatively. I've thought about how I want to get them out to the public. I would LOVE to do a comic, but I am very weak at sequential art and, more importantly, I have no time. I've thought about writing a series of novels or books, but I fear my scientific writing skills murder my ability to write interestingly and creatively for fiction readers. What I would really like to do, realistically, is spot illustrations for a written story, much in the style of The Katurran Odyssey. However, if we disregard reality? I'd love to see my concepts as movies or as television series!
2. Do you openly share your head-world with the public? Why or why not?
I don't share either of mine at the moment. I often teeter around on whether or not I should. I worry about a couple of things. If I share my worlds I run the risk of my ideas being plagiarized by people who can put out media much faster than I can and therefore losing credit and control of my concepts. However, I worry that if I don't share my head-worlds publicly then if someone happens to converge on my ideas, and gets them "out there" before me, then I'm the one looking like the copy-cat or plagiarizer. At the moment I feel like my concepts are sufficiently unique that I don't have to worry about the latter, but you never know!!
How about you guys?
First off, I didn't think "head-world" would be that misinterpretable of a concept, but I got a few people questioning what I meant (from various places I posted this to). Let me clarify; by "head-world" I mean a fictitious world or universe you have created characters for, stories for, environments for, etc. For example, the entire world where George R. R. Martin's books A Song of Ice and Fire take place are his "head-world"; the Harry Potter universe is J. K. Rowling's "head world"; etc.
I have a few more questions for you guys (which I will answer as well):
1. What do you plan on doing with your head-world? Why did you create it/them?
I have two main ones and I created them because they were concepts or stories I haven't seen, but would like to see. They also center around topics I like to think about, are important to me, and want to discuss creatively. I've thought about how I want to get them out to the public. I would LOVE to do a comic, but I am very weak at sequential art and, more importantly, I have no time. I've thought about writing a series of novels or books, but I fear my scientific writing skills murder my ability to write interestingly and creatively for fiction readers. What I would really like to do, realistically, is spot illustrations for a written story, much in the style of The Katurran Odyssey. However, if we disregard reality? I'd love to see my concepts as movies or as television series!
2. Do you openly share your head-world with the public? Why or why not?
I don't share either of mine at the moment. I often teeter around on whether or not I should. I worry about a couple of things. If I share my worlds I run the risk of my ideas being plagiarized by people who can put out media much faster than I can and therefore losing credit and control of my concepts. However, I worry that if I don't share my head-worlds publicly then if someone happens to converge on my ideas, and gets them "out there" before me, then I'm the one looking like the copy-cat or plagiarizer. At the moment I feel like my concepts are sufficiently unique that I don't have to worry about the latter, but you never know!!
How about you guys?
i have too many systems to count, and only a few are sufficiently structured to call them complete head-worlds. i love world building so much that when i devise a subject/canon/system/etc that i like that doesn't fit within a world i've created, i create a new one just to house it, and add to it later.
Very true, it can just be a massive headache.
1. Like hell if I know. Originally it was just a personal project, but then I thought about maybe making it into a novel, then an RPG video game (that was an interesting stage), and now I'm leaning more toward a graphic novel. But I have to say, your idea of doing something along the lines of Terryl Whitlatch's The Katurran Odyssey is a tempting one.
2. Not... openly. I've recently started letting more information out, but for the most part I keep it offline and only tell one very close friend everything. I'm trying not to hoard it to myself so much, because I honestly want to let people in and share my world with them, but at the same time I am terrified of people ripping off my brain babies.
2) I openly share Nym and her world when I feel like it, part of the fun of it is sharing. Sure, it's a creative playground meant only for myself, but it's also really fun to share and see what people think! I waffle back and forth between the fear of having my concept stolen and the fear of having others come up with similar concepts and publish them before me. It's easy with Nym because I don't care if it's amazingly original or horribly cliche. But I do care with other stories I have in mind. I like to bounce ideas off of close friends when I can, but I still keep a lot of it secret.
I also plan for artwork to be created from my world as well. That will come slowly, but it should help keep my created motivation for writhing it on.
I am planning to trying to get it publish. the work of editing it has been slow despite the rough draft been completed, but i am still hoping to finish it soon.
2. Many people know that i am writing an novel from here and Real Life. The thing most people however doesn't know is that it has Anthropomorphic specie's in it. My Father dose, and perhaps my mother but not too many. For people, at least what i came to under stand, is when we read book's, most of them has Human's. This is something were attach too way to often, because it's something we can gasp with. even if these stories had other species or creatures in them, these stories still used an human as the main character for the attachment for the reader. i did gone this route, but there will be other tales of mine with other specie's in them. Like my Darjeet short story is.