[Creative] Trying to build a fantasy setting.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Originally Posted by whswhs

But I have to say that sounds odd, given that you started this thread by citing Uncle Figgy's Guide to Good Fantasy as an inspiration for your thinking about magic and fantasy.

That gave me names to put to my thinking about magic. I've never adsorbed more than those categories.

This scene best describes how I feel when I try to read worldbuilding advice (I'm the fur vest guy). It's not even that I don't understand the ideas and how they fit together logically, it's that there's a mysterious gap between that and when the metaphysical director yells "ACTION!" where I'm supposed to shift from documentary view to fiction film view......it's just a weird disconnect I've never quite figured out. I've begun to have the creeping suspicion I don't think about the way worlds, fictional or otherwise, work the same way other people do.

Sorry for the mini-self-jack: I was originally thinking of forking this into its own thread, but didn't feel it warranted that.