Today’s #ThursdayAesthetic on twitter theme is setting. So I wanted to talk a bit about that in terms of my WIP SA.
It was actually fairly easy for me to come up with the setting of this WIP, once I knew I was incorporating a Robin Hood character I knew I had to base the setting of it on Nottingham and Sherwood Forest. Sadly I have never been so it is definitely loosely based, and mostly based in terms of how I named locations. Thankfully, I have my best friend to help me – she was born in Nottingham. I also incorporated Greek mythology elements in the setting, but not too much.
Creating the setting was the easiest part, though I avoided making a map for a while. I’m not the best at making maps, but with fantasy wip, I find that I really need one. The one I made for SA is incredibly basic and is only to help me keep the location of places straight in my head. I’m not sure if I’ll include one when I publish, but I have time to think about it and look into hiring designers.
I’m super excited to share it with everyone. I truly hope I do the world building justice in my writing though.
How about you? Was setting easy for you in your WIP? Or was it the tough part? Do maps help you?
Maps help me when reading, but as I can’t draw, they don’t do anything for me when writing. So far my setting is in lite mode. I need to add more detail I’m sure, something that I’ll do once I start actual edits.
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Maps definitely help me when reading too. I can kinda draw and thankfully I can use photoshop, so I have that in my favour in terms of making maps, but they’ll never be good enough quality to include in a published copy.
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