One of the pics I made for Merlin – TAG, which @merlin-wat-game organized some time ago 🙂 Have to admit, I edited it a bit, since the original colors were just DAMN BRIGHT. But with Copics, you just have the range of colors you own – which are some but not that many, in my case XD Also I enjoyed drawing Merwaine for a change, some getting out of the comfort zone is never wrong 😉
And even though nobody will have the desire anyway, I just go with the obligatore please reblog – don’t repost without approval. ❤
One of the hardest parts of writing speculative fiction is presenting readers with a world that’s interesting and different from our own in a way that’s both immersive and understandable at the same time.
Thankfully, there are a few techniques that can help you present worldbuilding information to your readers in a natural way, as well as many tricks to tweaking the presentation until it’s just right.
Four basic techniques:
1. The ignorant character.
By introducing a character who doesn’t know about the aspects of the world building you’re trying to convey, you can let the ignorant character voice the questions the reader naturally wants to ask. This is commonly seen in cases where the protagonist is brought into a new world, society, organization, etc, but non-PoV character put under the same circumstances can be equally useful.
It works best when the inclusion of the ignorant character feels natural. They must have a purpose in the story outside of simply asking questions.
2. Conflicting opinions.
A fantastic way to convey detailed world building concepts is to have characters with conflicting viewpoints discuss or argue about them. Unless you’re working with a brainwashed society, every character should hold their own set of religious, political, and social beliefs.
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