Magical World Builder's Guide by Stephanie Bryant is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.web-writer.net.
I had planned today to have everyone give a last check on their characters. But then Holly Ingraham (Dreamway) was wonderful and sent along an article she wrote about the satellites around your world, and has given permission for this to be the Day 25 exercise.
Read this. It's marvelous and should remind us all that the moon can serve to give our story light, darkness, or mood-- but not at certain times of the month.
The title refers to rainbows, and perhaps Holly will give a brief recap on rainbows as they apply to world-building.
Read this article and then figure out: how many moons does your world have? How long is a month for each of them? What are they named? Do you have any scenes already plotted in which moonlight is absolutely necessary? If so, be sure to write down the phase of the moon you need on that date, and use that date as your "touchstone" for what phase the moon will be in on other days. If you need to, write out the moon's calendar and as scenes happen when you write them in November, jot them into your calendar so you know what kind of moon your folks might encounter at those times.
I received more responses on this one exercise than any other I posted, so I've compiled all the commentary here.
Note: I also have a lovely thing from a friend of mine who's an astronomer on planetary orbits, which I will post Real Soon Now....
Magical World Builder's Guide by
Stephanie Bryant is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at
www.web-writer.net.
Last modified: Thursday, 06-Dec-2007 18:01:30 PST