The Micro in World-building
This post can also be called - 'backward world-building' - because it's basically drawing inferences from the scenes in your head.
I just had this thought when I was writing plot material today. Why not try to build some of the world from the scenes I already have? This might seem kind of funny, because if you didn't do it that way, then your world and your story would feel disjointed. What other way is there, right? But this is reading between the lines.
Micro-analyzing the atmosphere of your scenes and building the story world around it. Going down to details like 'that vase in the corner of this room' and wondering who made it - if it's a completely magical world with nothing common - and how, too - because magic sort of changes things.
Every scene you write will have micro and macro details. Macro details become clear because of some prior world-building, most of the time. Micro details, on the other hand, have the potential to let you know something about the world - a particular niche of the world you're building.
Then again, this is is no way a substitute for hard-core world-building. But it may get your world-building to the next, more detailed level. If you try this out, tell me in the comments!
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