Merry L. Moon
@merrylmoon.bsky.social
fantasy nerd, writer, movie monster sympathizer • someday i will write your favorite rpg
worldbuilding is one of my favorite parts of writing and i would love nothing more than to just make sandboxes all day for other people to play in
Max speaking to one of my pet peeves here. Story gets metonymized into the marker of Serious Writerly Craftsmanship, as an understandable reaction to the amateur tendency of farting around ideaspace
But casting Story as the be-all end-all of fiction play really limits the imagination
But casting Story as the be-all end-all of fiction play really limits the imagination
game narrative people like to talk about how worldbuilding isn’t storytelling. i agree; in fact i think worldbuilding is actually its own emerging creative practice, with its own virtuosos & masterpieces; it overlaps with storytelling but often feels to me more like architecture, hypertext, collage
November 22, 2024 at 7:48 PM
worldbuilding is one of my favorite parts of writing and i would love nothing more than to just make sandboxes all day for other people to play in
Reposted by Merry L. Moon
Max speaking to one of my pet peeves here. Story gets metonymized into the marker of Serious Writerly Craftsmanship, as an understandable reaction to the amateur tendency of farting around ideaspace
But casting Story as the be-all end-all of fiction play really limits the imagination
But casting Story as the be-all end-all of fiction play really limits the imagination
game narrative people like to talk about how worldbuilding isn’t storytelling. i agree; in fact i think worldbuilding is actually its own emerging creative practice, with its own virtuosos & masterpieces; it overlaps with storytelling but often feels to me more like architecture, hypertext, collage
November 18, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Max speaking to one of my pet peeves here. Story gets metonymized into the marker of Serious Writerly Craftsmanship, as an understandable reaction to the amateur tendency of farting around ideaspace
But casting Story as the be-all end-all of fiction play really limits the imagination
But casting Story as the be-all end-all of fiction play really limits the imagination