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Q&A Writer's Block: How to Stop World-building and Start Writing?

Write your Silmarillion instead. Tolkien created his Elvish languages because he was a professor of linguistics. He created the world of LOTR to have someone to speak his languages. The Silmaril...

posted 8y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T05:28:23Z (almost 5 years ago)
Write your _Silmarillion_ instead.

Tolkien created his Elvish languages because he was a professor of linguistics. He created the world of LOTR to have someone to speak his languages.

The _Silmarillion_ is the collection of mythology, creation stories, and history which built the world for _The Hobbit_ and _The Lord of the Rings_ to stand on. Collecting all your world-building into short stories, myths, little scenes, individual characters with backstories, and so on may generate a plot bunny, and from there you can see if it attaches itself to a larger structure like a Hero's Journey.

If not, then you still have a cool collection of history and mythology, and maybe you can work with someone else to have other folks tell stories in that world.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-08-08T19:22:02Z (over 8 years ago)
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