This is most likely the last entry I'll be putting in this weblog until next year so meantime, head over to my other weblog. Yeah, I haven't updated that one either, but I guarantee you that it will be updated more frequently than this one in the coming months.
Currently, I'm signed up for NaNoFiMo in order to complete my unfinished and unofficial Nano Salamander Hill (which is a fantasy/western), but I'm sort of pessimistic at the moment. I'm sort of distracted with other things and my motivation is near nil.
I saw a forum thread about organizing world building. Personally, I think that if your world building is getting so unruly that every method you try doesn't keep it under control, you're completely missing the point of your story. Do people want to read your story because of the world you make up or because of your characters? And if you have a gigantic story line in which you're pretty much making up a history--well, you're on your own. Not very many people like reading history books, let alone make-believe history books. (Yes, that is a not so subtle hint for fantasy writers of gigantic books to stop writing them, publishers to stop publishing them, and for readers to stop buying them because they have the mistaken belief that they might be good!)
