creating

[egypturnash]

I've seen so, so many people who build exhaustively detailed worlds and then can never write stories set in them, because the details take the place of characters.

— Carla Speed McNeil, "Finder: Dream Sequence" (endnotes)

Yeah, I've been there too. I've seen that in other people. I've fallen into it myself.

Comments

[martes.livejournal.com]

That's one thing I've never really had a problem with. The worlds tend to build themselves after the characters and plot are set up.

[bluerain.livejournal.com]

Same here. I'm actually only interested in worlds at all as someplace to let the characters run around. It's always been the characters that really interest me.