Today's Topic - Creations Myths are the key to understanding your fantasy cultures
Creation myths are a great place to start when developing a new Fantasy Culture. *Stops listens for a drum roll. However, only seeing a group of crickets he quickly moves on* Yes, it is a bad joke. However, there’s truth in them thar words.
Yes, truth. We often try and understand the cultures in our fantasy worlds. However, how often to we look at the myths of the cultures. We often on think them up when they are needed. However, If you are building a naturalist fantasy world. It really is in your best interest to create a basic outline for the important myths. This will tell you what the early culture found important, and once you know that building religion.
In today’s episode, we are looking at the themes for ten earth cultures and a quick bonus myth from the dragon culture on Gardul. Join us for some inspiration and practice at creating creation myths for your fantasy cultures.
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Podcast Show Flow
- Categories for this wonderfulwiki page on a List of Creation Myths
- Out of Chaos
- Earth Driver
- Out of nothing
- Emergent
- World Parent
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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day
Create a Creation Myth
The Real World task for the day
Step outside and enjoy the world you live in.
The Tease
Humor in your Fantasy World
Today's Topic - How I use Role-playing games to test out my world and practice my storytelling techniques
I love gaming. I have been running campaigns and stories since I was a preteen. They inspire my imagination. They make me dream. However, as I have been getting older, I have stopped playing them as much. I am two busy. I do not have the time to waste on having fun?
Luckily, I overthink things. I know the rewards that I have earned from telling stories through tabletop role-playing games. It makes me a creative thinker. I am always sought out at work for creative problem solving. I never get stuck writing a story because I create a character that I cannot motivate to continue down the plot line.
I have also had the benefit of improving and testing my world over years. I have learned what works and what does not work for me. It has made both my storytelling and my world building become more effective over time. Join Michael and me as we talk about the benefits of tabletop RPGs for authors of all stripes.
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Podcast Show Flow
- Types of collaboration
- Peers
- Lead and Players
- Free for All
- Develop the location
- Plot Outline
- Major NPCs
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DeScriptors by Matthew Bannock
Today's Topic - Using the power of interactive storytelling to give you control over the characters and plot in your narratives
I have had the pleasure of talking to many writers. It always shocked me that so many authors I talked to being tricked by authors or scenes that would make the get stuck in their latest story.
Now, I do not want to sound cocky. I do get stuck. My problem for me is time; I work a full-time job, I have this podcast, and I am also on the Small Biz Life podcast. However, I have never felt stopped by my narrative.
So being and explorer, I searched for a reason that I would not get stuck in a narrative over writers with more experience have trouble getting stuck telling a story. All I could figure out was it had nothing to do with a difference storytelling skills. However, most of my experience telling stories was much more interactive.
I have a background in acting, oral storytelling, and tabletop roleplaying. I truly believe that improve acting skills and tabletop storytelling really developed my skills working with a story that I didn’t have complete control over. I was forced to learn ways to keep moving the story ahead to the conclusion that I wanted.
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Podcast Show Flow
- Oral Storytelling
- Acting
- Video Games
- Board Games
- Tabletop Games
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Today's Topic - Using composition notebooks so you do not lose your Unicorns, spackle, and Twilight posters
Years ago, I had a great idea. It involved something with Unicorns, spackle, and a Twilight poster. It was awesome. It was going to be a starter for an alternate earth where I could write urban fantasy. I was laughing, and my heart strings got plucked like a banjo.
The problem was by the time I got home that was all I could remember. I cannot even remember how I could connect unicorns, spackle and Twilight poster. Well, except for using spackle to paste the poster to the unicorn. Now, I do find the idea amusing. However, I have no idea why I would think it would make an interesting alternate earth.
So, I realized I had a problem. I cannot remember all the good ideas I have. So, I started looking for a good way to keep track of my great ideas by projects. Check out the episode and see the system I currently use to track my ideas. And yes, I used composition notebooks.
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Podcast Show Flow
- The beauty of composition notebooks in Technicolor.
- Drawing pad (optional)
- Assign a color to a project (Book planning, Worldbuilding, online platform, or other)
- Use one notebook for your random ideas or future project starter
- Store remove the sketches from the drawing pad in the appropriate notebook
- IMPORTANT, create digital files when you get home. Organize them and make sure they are stored online.
- Carry the books with you and leave them on your nightstand when you go to bed.
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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day
Create a notebook for your next project.
The Real World task for the day
Keep the notebooks close to you at all times
The Tease
The Power of interactive storytelling
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