Hi dryad
I've been worldbuilding rather than storytelling recently so I was wondering: *tries to muster the ability to make this coherent* if you're making up a world, do you feel like you gotta have a story to go in it, or are you chill to just have a sandbox by itself, and/or would you even make a world if it's not gonna have a story in it? (I hope that made sense)
Hi! It totally made sense!
I’m gonna let you in on a little (maybe not so secret at this point) secret: I enjoy worldbuilding more than writing itself.
I think it’s perfectly cool and exciting to have a world on its own, no story necessary. I usually use story ideas as a basic framework for the worlds I build and then I go wild with worldbuilding from there.
And sometimes I lose myself in worldbuilding, even (very enjoyable feeling). For The Knights of the Alder for example, I keep working out worldbuilding things even though those are not particularly important for the story itself.
It’s just so much fun to work on a world, even if the cool fact you came up with is only hinted at in one sentence of the whole story.
And even if I never finish my story, at least I’ll still have the world, you know? That’s something. Stories to put in those worlds can come later, I think.
That’s why, though I’ve never done it in that order before, I would totally build a world without having a story to go in it.
Cause yeah, every story needs a world, but not every world necessarily needs a story. At least in my opinion.
