fun with world-building

[redbird]

godkin is the journal of an alien soldier-turned administrator, in an empire driven (at least in part) by an odd theology. Each entry ends with a poll, offering two or more choices for action. The author, haikujaguar, bases the plot in part on the poll results and any comments that people leave.

I just wrote a comment speculating on what being paid--particularly in money--for a task might mean to the people of Shraeven, the newly conquered province that Angharad is going to be governing. Part of the fun of this is a hunch that, before I asked that, the author may not have thought about that question.

I'm having fun with worldbuilding, but it doesn't seem to want to go into anything I'm writing, rather than playing with other people's work. I need characters, and a story. (Yes, Islandia works, but only because after Austin Tappan Wright spent decades on world-building, his daughter put in a lot of effort to find a story in among the maps and other background: Wright had written narrative, it just wasn't his focus.)

posted unpreviewed, because the first try at this hung my machine looking to download the userinfo symbol