I’m trying to figure out, going through my old files, exactly what happened on September 18th, 2005.<\/p>\n
I say this because it appears to be a significant date, as of my old worldbuilding files and notes, MANY of them were last modified on September 18th, 2005. So why was that the last time I touched them? Near as I can gather and recall, that was around the time I got rid of my old desktop, so I probably transferred\/saved a bunch of stuff onto my flashdrive. And while I’ve kept and shuffled those files around between computers since<\/i>, I’ve not really touched them. <\/p>\n
Most of this stuff is worldbuilding files of various other nations and cultures in the same world as Druthal. I wrote up a lot of those documents (using a “National Document” format, the origins of which lost to memory) with my old worldbuilding\/writing partner (who I still consult & confer with, even though he doesn’t do any fiction writing anymore), mostly between 2000 and 2003. Some of them are incomplete. And most haven’t been touched since Sept. 18th, 2005.<\/p>\n
The truth is, they would all need massive levels of overhaul. For one, I’m not particularly fond of the “National Document” format, and I would need to come up with a new template that’s more to my liking. Second, much of the actual writing– on a craft and sentence structure level– I find somewhat embarrassing. Third, and most important, there’s a lot of stuff in all that I don’t necessarily agree with anymore. <\/p>\n
Some of it is due to being more knowledgeable now. I’ve done a lot of reading and research since writing those, and knowing that I have stuff in there that’s just plain wrong. Other parts I just don’t like, too simplistic, or the broad brushstrokes are a little too broad. (I’m looking at one right now that I really don’t remember a lot of it, but I don’t care for it.)<\/p>\n
But the only nation in which I’ve done modern, up-to-date work on is Druthal. Two other nations (Acseria and Imachan) I had some more recent work (dated in 2007)– but that was because I was working on Crown of Druthal <\/i>in 2007 (that was when I finished the rough draft), and it’s set primarily in those two nations. <\/p>\n
Since then, I narrowed my focus to Druthal, and specifically the city of Maradaine, which was a major factor in improving what I was writing. I was trying, since I had done an entire world’s worth of building to showcase THE ENTIRE WORLD. I mean, that was the underlying concept of the Crown of Druthal<\/i> series– they would travel around the world and stop in every country. Because I made it so I MUST SHOW IT ALL.<\/p>\n
I’ve gotten that out of my system since then. <\/p>\n
At some point, I would like to go back through it all. Especially since I’ve made far more specific maps since then. But that’s not a project I’m going to get to any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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