writerly ways

I almost skipped today since we’ve spent a week having writing posts but I wanted to make a few final posts (and thank everyone again, especially those who aren’t regulars here, for weighing in on the posts. I think I’ve caught up with everyone’s world building posts but I may have missed one or two. If so tell me.

A thought occurred to me about world building and accuracy. elasg mention some of the geography of mine could be a little hinky and sholio wondered about a societal ban on alcohol consumption. One fault is a little more troublesome than the other. Societies can do pretty much what they want and find a way to rationalize it. The earth itself is less flexible.

I’m having my own issues with this in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series. I loved The Alloy of the Law and the Mistborn trilogy is set @ 300-400 years prior and it’s a much different setting. For some reason there is ash constantly raining down from the Ashmounts (If they’re explained, I’m not there yet but I’m assuming volcanoes) but we have a red sun and almost no reason for plants to grow. But the way the plants that do exist are explained, it strains a bit of scientific credulity. They’re all brown. While it’s true that there are some variations in leaf color but often it’s due to artificial selection. Plants photosynthesizes via chlorophyll which is important. I suppose it could be argued an alien world could have a different type of photoreactive pigment but one of the main characters mentions that the plants used to be green. It’s a little thing and while I’m enjoying the story I’m also wondering about that damn brown pigment.

It’s been a week of the green-eyed monster (speaking of green) Envy’s been riding my shoulder. Most of writing is hard work and luck. But two lucky people popped into my radar. One of them is an 18 year old boy who sold his first mystery. I dreamed about that in middle school. Didn’t happen. And another was a woman who didn’t even want to be a writer until five years ago decided, hey maybe I’ll try it and immediately gets published. I don’t know how good they are but yes, I am a bit jealous of that easy success.

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