I'm up for critique next month in SPAMmers. A science fiction short story that got out of hand and meandered on toward novelette during NaNoWriMo last November is calling to me today. It needs tightening and a focus. A title would be good ...
It also needs some worldbuilding. I checked my handy file of linky things on the subject. Here are a few that I particularly like:
http://matociquala.tumblr.com/post/46254831406/people-too-often-conceive-of-worldbuilding#_=_ Scott Lynch via Elizabeth Bear: "Some parts of it you can measure almost scientifically. Some parts are mad whack inscrutable alchemy."
http://www.redwombatstudio.com/blog/?p=5484 Okapi butts and worldbuilding as only Ursula Vernon could present it. "... there's no okapi there at all, it's basically a big striped butt on a stick that the writer is waving through the undergrowth."
http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/ Patricia Wrede's wonderful list of thought-provoking ideas. Unpack at your leisure.
So this weekend I may intersperse preparing my taxes (I've industrially pushed the file around my desk for a month; push must move on to shove) with poking at this SF story.
A lot of coffee will be consumed. Probably with chocolate.
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