Worldbuilding - the practice, the theory, and the analysis of other writers' own worldbuilding efforts - is one of my great loves among the creative arts, alongside constructed languages and writing systems. Coming up with homebrew settings for tabletop roleplaying games is my most frequent outlet for this, but sometimes I'll also hare off in pursuit of something effort-intensive and faintly silly. Today's whim: crafting a unified theory of worldbuilding, in the form of an
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It took me four hours and a lot of troubleshooting, but I have done it. I am documenting my accomplishment here, for those who want to replicate this project.
I initially became interested in this software because George R. R. Martin said in an interview that, to this day, he writes all his books in Wordstar 4.0, a writing program from 1979. I worship GRRM, his writing has an almost religious feel in my psyche. Last year, I spent a ton of money on the authentic WS4 floppy disk set, and a
…The current world population is 8,189,900,916 as of Monday, November 25, 2024 according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometer.
If you grew up a Millennial in America, or had children who did, you likely watched quite a bit of children's television programming, replete with all of the commercial breaks for action figures, Barbies, gimmicky breakfast cereals, and guilt trips of face-melting intensity
…I figured a daylog was in order, considering I posted for the first time in months, and the last daylog I wrote was in June of last year. That needs to be fixed. I need to get back into the swing of E2.
So... what's up?
I looked back at that daylog and it turned out that I didn't accomplish much on that goal list. It's funny how a year or so
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