Yesterday I found out that Garth Nix, one of my favourite authors, 'doesn't worldbuild the way other writers do'.
He doesn't sit down and plan out detailed worlds. He just comes up with details as he writes and needs them and then that grows in complexity over time, sometimes with occassional ideas or notes floating around.
He worldbuilds like me! I feel so validated! I have always felt like SUCH A FRAUD but The Old Kingdom might be my favourite fantasy world and he built it how I do!
@vicorva Steven Brust, too. And I'm pretty sure Terry Pratchett was the same. Things like Discworld maps happened because other people made them, didn't they?
@anke All I remember about Terry Pratchett's process was that he had someone else compiling his worldbuilding, which he referenced. Not a replicable process!
@vicorva Yeah, I was under the impression the person in question volunteered. But I may be wrong.
Stephen/Steven Briggs?
@anke I think that's right! Not sure whether a volunteer or not but still to me seems too far away to be relatable. 😅 Perhaps his process was otherwise similar, though!
@anke I was talking to Joh about this and they brought up Pratchett and insisted that the reason Pratchett needed someone to catalogue it all was because he absolutely wasn't doing that XD so Joh agrees with you!
@Satsuma @anke ah okay