Tag Archives: world-building

Days and Holidays

Posted on December 4, 2023 by Caroline Ailanthus

I’m doing some world-building today. Specifically, I’m working on the calendar used in the Nonani empire. Maybe you’ll like being able to see the results? The Calendar The strangest thing, from our perspective, is the period called the Fallow, the … Continue reading →

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Food

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Caroline Ailanthus

I know I should be focusing on the book I’m publishing in February, but I’ve had to do some world-building for another project and figured I’d share the result with you. I realized the other day that since I’m setting … Continue reading →

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Less Is More

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Caroline Ailanthus

So I was writing the other day (I know, big surprise), and I made an interesting discovery.; that in order to avoid world-building info-dumps, I had to do more world-building. The key to immersive story-telling, I’ve found, is detail. Ursula … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts About Money in the Imaginary Future

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Caroline Ailanthus

My previous book, Ecological Memory, is set in the future—or, at least an imaginary version of it. My next book, Bifurcation Events, is set in the same imaginary future. One of the interesting things about imagined future is that it … Continue reading →

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Wanna Trade?

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Caroline Ailanthus

Oh, poo. I cut-and-pasted something I wrote offline, and not all of it pasted! I spent time on it, too, and most of it is gone! I don’t think I saved it. Maybe I’ll rewrite it at some point. Below, … Continue reading →

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Cardinals and Ordinals (Updated)

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Caroline Ailanthus

I’ve written about the Witches in my fan-fic version of Oz before, but I’ve done a lot of work on them since then, so I figured it was high time for an update. First an overview: Oz (my version) is … Continue reading →

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It’s About Time, It’s About Space

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Caroline Ailanthus

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ve probably noticed that I’m a fan of world-building, especially very detailed world-building that doesn’t actually make it into the story. Although I also enjoy world-building for its own sake, my … Continue reading →

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What Maps Are For

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Caroline Ailanthus

The other night I fell down a world-building rabbit hole and didn’t come up again for several hours. Oz, of course, though this post isn’t really about Oz. It’s about the usefulness of excessive world-building. What I was doing the … Continue reading →

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Clothing in Oz

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Caroline Ailanthus

I could have sworn I wrote about Oz and clothing already, but now I can’t find any such post. So, I figure I’d better rectify that now, yes? For those who want to see my earlier Oz-related posts and get … Continue reading →

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Math

Posted on August 9, 2022 by Caroline Ailanthus

When I was eight, I and my classmates made journals out of construction paper stapled together. We were then encouraged–not quite assigned–to write entries in them periodically, entries about our lives. My life at the time included learning about pie … Continue reading →

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