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A New Book Is Born! — 10 Comments

  1. There's nothing wrong with Harem boys…:) It's a great idea. And how fun, and challenging to make your own world, and keeping track of the details must prove a challenge. They are what makes a world 'real'.
    The excerpt I read really showed that, words I had never heard before, when used in context all of a sudden became part of my vocabulary! Made everything more concrete to me.
    Congratulations to both of you
    ! Hard work pays off and you are both proof of that.

  2. The movie Prince of Persia was a huge inspiration. We wanted the exotic setting but with modern showers and, of course, harem boys.
    World building is so mucy fun and I strongly suggest it to every writer, at least for one story.

  3. I really felt immersed in the world you created. It's neat to read more on how you did it. Congratulations and thank you for the great read!

  4. Hi, Tess! I'm glad that the new words made sense in context. I loved getting to create them and it's funny how now they seem so very real. I wrote "Keeper" in an article the other day and had to pause, to wonder if the readers of my blog post would understand what I referred to. I decided to leave it, as a "teaser," but it's definitely something to think about.

  5. I agree, Rachel, it's a lot of fun. (And Rachel's fun to build it with.) I agree that everyone should do it at least once; though I also argue that we world-build whenever we write, whether or not we are building a totally new world or one that exists already. The better we get at understanding the techniques of worldbuilding, the better we can tell stories.

  6. Hi, Darla! I'm so pleased that it immersed you. That's the biggest compliment we can receive, really, considering that its central to whether the story "works". I'm glad you liked it!

  7. How fascinating, especially with two people working together to build one world. I'm going to pick this one up!

  8. Thanks, Anya! We had a lot of fun with it. We started working on a bunch of other stories set within that world as we wrote, which made the worldbuilding a lot more fun. But that's a story for another post. ~grin~

    Thanks for commenting, I appreciate it!