67 - Weeding your World with Seth Ring

Worldbuilding is like gardening, you’re creating a space that’s artificial, human made, but it showcases natural beauty. Wild nature meets ordered man. But what if you get distracted along the way, an idea pops up that you’re growing an obsession with and can’t tell if it really ‘fits’. Do you save it for later? Cast it aside completely? Today Seth and James talk about weeding your setting, that is, when and when not to remove something from your setting. Key Takeaways: A weed is something that distracts the audience or yourself from the story you’re trying to tell. Weeds are best identified by checking them against your core concept in the setting. Practice is the only real way to grow but you can supercharge that with a great a community that will give you instant meaningful feedback. Try ‘building in public’ to cultivate this kind of community. Links and Sundry: Gardening Episode - Spotify link to where we talked about Gardening in more depth. Seth’s Stuff All Seth’s stuff can be found here - go ahead and check out his whole catalogue! WorldCraft Club The only link you’ll ever need: https://linktr.ee/worldcraftclub - this will take you to our link tree which has access to our discord and other great stuff for you to check out.