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More nanowrimo musings.
Oct. 24th, 2008 05:31 pmOkay, this is the map I came up with, using the random map generator program I posted about recently:
It's actually two different generations, mashed together and modified a bit, to fix the seams where the land masses didn't make sense.
I notice that the western "continent" has a large lake / inland sea smack dab in the middle of a steep mountain range. ... That might be an interesting origin spot for my protagonist -- She or he would be seen as "alien" or "Exotic" by characters who live along the coasts, which would be cosmopolitan trading centers, probably.
The eastern continent has a lot of islands and archipelagoes -- a compliementary character (love interest? rival? both? I dunno) could come from that place. Maybe. Perhaps.
I'm thinking of printing this pic out, and taking a pen to it and breaking it into 15 sections. Each section would be a chapter, and each chapter would be two days' of writing (on average, in an ideal world). Maybe, as I write, I could even mark out a little hatch-mark path of the character's journey, so when I get stuck, I can center back on what the landscape would look like by glancing at the map.
Now: a question --
Should my story be set in some fictional antiquity, such as a mass-market paperback in the Sword and Sorcery genre? Or should it be set in a technologically advanced, mechanistic society?
Or in other words: should my character move through the novel on foot, by airplane, or by teleporter?
It's actually two different generations, mashed together and modified a bit, to fix the seams where the land masses didn't make sense.
I notice that the western "continent" has a large lake / inland sea smack dab in the middle of a steep mountain range. ... That might be an interesting origin spot for my protagonist -- She or he would be seen as "alien" or "Exotic" by characters who live along the coasts, which would be cosmopolitan trading centers, probably.
The eastern continent has a lot of islands and archipelagoes -- a compliementary character (love interest? rival? both? I dunno) could come from that place. Maybe. Perhaps.
I'm thinking of printing this pic out, and taking a pen to it and breaking it into 15 sections. Each section would be a chapter, and each chapter would be two days' of writing (on average, in an ideal world). Maybe, as I write, I could even mark out a little hatch-mark path of the character's journey, so when I get stuck, I can center back on what the landscape would look like by glancing at the map.
Now: a question --
Should my story be set in some fictional antiquity, such as a mass-market paperback in the Sword and Sorcery genre? Or should it be set in a technologically advanced, mechanistic society?
Or in other words: should my character move through the novel on foot, by airplane, or by teleporter?
