{"id":12062,"date":"2022-08-30T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:38:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T00:38:23","slug":"world-building-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/world-building-with-words\/","title":{"rendered":"World Building With Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cReaders seek the experience of the world through character emotion and consciousness.\u00a0What we remember about books and movies is the way they made us feel\/experience, which is why we crave another story-hit, more, more, more.\u201d \u2014 Juneta Key,<\/a> \u201cA Look at World Building and the Reader Experience\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juneta elaborates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use your character\u2019s emotional attachment to places, things, and feeling of home\u2013longing, or contentment, or discontentment. World building is an external and internal journey with the character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World building includes using all the senses, to create atmosphere, texture, and attachment:  Sight, Smell, Touch, Hearing, Taste, and 6th sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

STORY EXAMPLE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne of Green Gables<\/a> L. M. Montgomery uses the senses and emotions in such a way that her world is a character in itself.\u00a0 Read the free <\/a>Project Gutenberg<\/a> ebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1: First paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies\u2019 eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde\u2019s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde\u2019s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will notice MRS is all capitalized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immediately we know she is important to the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She relates the character to us via the world building (setting).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simile and metaphor are the vehicle of setting that create visually and emotionally strong images in our minds. She uses the setting to tell the reader  about the character’s attitude, disposition and temperament. The further you read the more she builds on this and strengthens the scene paragraph after paragraph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montgomery particularly uses the river to describe and create a parallel impression of the road, specifically the people passing by MRS. Rachel Lynde\u2019s home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 MRS. is a busy body cataloging details while sitting at her window. Through the use of a ferret, as a comparison tool, she demonstrates the trait of persistence for MRS. following every crumb in pursuit of other people\u2019s business.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think about it, the senses are triggered in that paragraph even though sound is not mentioned exactly. The sound of flowing water\u2014a river, the sound of people passing by on the road, the sound of children\u2014it’s implied, I don\u2019t know about you but I heard it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally posted 8\/15\/2022 in Insecure Writer\u2019s Support Group<\/a>, as mentioned in Anne R. Allen’s Blog… with Ruth Harri<\/a>s<\/a> (8\/7\/2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cReaders seek the experience of the world through character emotion and consciousness.\u00a0What we remember about books and movies is the way they made us feel\/experience, which is why we crave another story-hit, more, more, more.\u201d \u2014 Juneta Key, \u201cA Look at World Building and the Reader Experience\u201d Juneta elaborates: Use your character\u2019s emotional attachment to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[1849,1848,1846,1847,1190],"class_list":["post-12062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-anne-r-allens-bog-with-ruth-harris","tag-insecure-writers-support-group","tag-juneta-key","tag-project-gutenberg","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-38y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12069,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions\/12069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}