Thinking of creating an "Enemies of Creed" blog
A few of you might know that I am currently writing a seven-book fantasy novel series called "Enemies of Creed." (I have finished book 1 and I'm nearly done with book 2.)
The series is intended for a wide audience, and I'm trying to make it appropriate for ages as young as ten or eleven years old.
But here's the thing. I am building a world that is complex and filled with cultures that are diverse and multifaceted. That means that there's a LOT more detail about the world and its inhabitants in my head than will likely ever make its way into the actual story.
This is partly due to the goal of keeping the content appropriate for younger readers. (I can't imagine many parents approving of their kids reading about the details of how the matriarchal dwarven society views sex as a central aspect of recreational, educational, and and philosophical experience. Or how they view blacksmithing as a metaphor for sex. Or how elves consider sharing one's gender to be as intimate as getting naked in front of someone. Or that asking an elf their gender is basically as offensive as shouting out, "Hey, show us your genitals!")
Honestly though, even more than the age-appropriate aspect, it's just a reality that many of those details are highly unlikely to be relevant to the plot of the books. So there's no justification to include them in the actual novels.
And yet I definitely WANT to share those details! Partly because I'm an extrovert who processes information most efficiently when I'm engaging with other people. Partly because I'm really excited and proud about some of this stuff, and I want other people to be excited with me. And partly because if I screw up and create something that's insensitive or offensive to a marginalized group that I hadn't considered, I want to be corrected on it sooner rather than later.
I don't my readers to feel the same way I feel whenever J.K. Rowling posts some random Wizarding World fact that nobody asked for like "Hufflepuffs have orgies in the common room" or "back in the old days, wizards and witches would just crap right in the hall between classes, and then use magic to clean up afterwards." (I'm not even making that stuff up.)
I don't want to wait until everything is already written and published before I start sharing world building details. I want to start putting that stuff out there now.
So my question is this: Do you think I should create a separate blog for this kind of content? Or just post it on my regular blog with an "Enemies of Creed Worldbuilding" header, and a warning that some content may not be age appropriate for younger readers?
Please let me know what you think!!