Today's Topic – Well start one today

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Podcast Show Flow

• The 5 Contacts to a world
• First Contact (Overview)
  • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore -Up to user
    • A Small Advance island vs larger primitive power
  • Determine reusability
  • Describe the Mission Free and Shareable world
• Second Contact (The Basics)
  • Create fill in the nouns you know 0
  • Just what you know do not force it
  • Frame Outline
• Third Contact
  • Looking through the frame at the world
  • Map it (Size matters)
  • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
    • Smaller Island
    • Invaders
    • 2 people
    • 2 Magic types
    • Geographic
      • Small
      • Currents
      • wind
      • Volcanos
      • reef
    • Tech
      • Early gunpowder
    • Transportation
    •  
  • Four Contact
    • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
    • Advanced Island, Invaders, and Sea World
    • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
  • Fifth Contact
    • Launch your Project – Open World
    • Flesh out the rest on demand

WBT

Start a new world or time in world

RW  Task

Learn to hang while social distancing https://www.caringbridge.org/resources/how-to-support-loved-ones-during-covid-19/

Today's Topic – Create a frame and starting

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Podcast Show Flow

• The 5 Contacts to a world
• First Contact (Overview)
  • Determine your Frame The area you want to explore
  • Determine reusability
  • Describe the Mission
• Second Contact (The Basics)
  • Create fill in the nouns you know ()
  • Just what you know do not force it
  • Frame Outline
• Third Contact
  • Looking through the frame at the world
  • Map it (Size matters)
  • Identify Needs (Cultures, Religions, languages, States, People)
• Four Contact
  • The Foundations (Three Points of reference)
  • Frame Focus (Flesh out what you need to flesh out your outline)
• Fifth Contact
  • Launch your Project
  • Flesh out the rest on demand

WBT

Create a document and store your contacts?

Try using framework perspectives and this list to look at your world. Maybe you need to stop building something you are spending too much time on. Maybe you need to start building in another area of your world.

RW  Task

Ask a creative friend for feedback

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Today's Topic – The Starting Place

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• Bottom-Up Worldbuilding – From Inspiration to Perspiration
  1. i) Identify the inspiring concept
  2. ii) Why is it interesting to me?

• iii) How can I make this interesting/inspiring to others?

1. iv) WHAT is it that I want to say?
2. v) Find the nouns that answer my questions

• The six questions that create my nouns
  1. i) Where are we? (Places)
  2. ii) How does it relate to us? (Rules)

• iii) When are we? (Time)

1. iv) Who is there? (Races)
2. v) What is there? (Props)
3. vi) What are they doing? (Cultures)

• The nouns I need
  1. i) Places
  2. ii) Time

• iii) Races

1. iv) Props
2. v) Cultures
3. vi) Rules

WBT

Write a one-page story using the Bottom Up approach to worldbuilding?

RW  Task

Go enjoy the outdoors before it gets too cold!

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Today's Topic – More or less

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Podcast Show Flow

5 Things to start worldbuilding

1. Storing what you have done
2. Finding your Frames
3. Identify Deviations
4. Creating a worldbuilding inventory
5. Creating a project for your world

Remember the Electrum rule of worldbuilding

Remember, every rule has an exception

Also remember rule six

                There is no rule six

WBT

Rules 7 of worldbuilding is rule six has not exceptions

RW  Task

Relax with some Monty Python