Introduction to this journal
Jun. 20th, 2011 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steorran_woruldeI've been inventing imaginary worlds and islands and societies ever since I was young. Some of them get farther than others, and none of them have ever yet gotten anywhere near fully developed. Some of them were originally intended as a setting for a story, but I put much more effort into the worldbuilding than I ever did into the stories that were supposed to be set there, and I have recently come to the conclusion that I am more of a wordbuilder than a writer or storyteller. I'm also a language lover, and so conlangs naturally belong as part of my worldbuilding, although I tend to get caught up in worries about 'getting it right' and thus don't get very far in my conlanging efforts.
I'm planning to use this journal as a place to put various thoughts about my imaginary places, societies, languages, species, etc; I'm not sure yet the details of how that will work out, but I expect it will include both things that are settled, and things that I'm still trying to figure out. The scope of this journal isn't purely for worldbuilding; it also includes fiction, characters, and poems from this world when I come up with them, although they're not my main imaginative activity.
I have one main imaginary world; at one of my conlanging phases, it had an in-world name Domil; I doubt that conlanging phase still applies, but it's handy to have a name for it, so I'll still refer to it as Domil. I have some other imaginary places that may or may not belong to Domil, and some that definitely don't belong to it, since they work on different principles.
I'm planning to use this journal as a place to put various thoughts about my imaginary places, societies, languages, species, etc; I'm not sure yet the details of how that will work out, but I expect it will include both things that are settled, and things that I'm still trying to figure out. The scope of this journal isn't purely for worldbuilding; it also includes fiction, characters, and poems from this world when I come up with them, although they're not my main imaginative activity.
I have one main imaginary world; at one of my conlanging phases, it had an in-world name Domil; I doubt that conlanging phase still applies, but it's handy to have a name for it, so I'll still refer to it as Domil. I have some other imaginary places that may or may not belong to Domil, and some that definitely don't belong to it, since they work on different principles.