So I used to be a pretty extensive world builder in my early days as a writer. I understand the appeal of it and why some feel it makes their work that much better. However, as of late, my world building mostly consists of "Here are some countries, creatures, etc. OK let's go with that." I prefer writing the story (with a decent outline) and allowing some things to come out as I go along. I feel like that approach also really works. However, I'm planning on making a central world to the majority of my novels and I'm bouncing around how to tie the novels together when they weren't necessarily in the same world to begin with. Since some of my stories take place in one country, with only brief mentions of outside countries, I think it might not be too difficult to do so. Being that my world building is minimal in some cases, it would be easy to go in and do world building after the fact and make two novels in the same world by doing some editing. Maybe it's not as easy as I suspect, but yeah, I think it's worth a shot.
Do any of you ever world build after you've finished your story? Just to flesh out details or keeps things consistent?
I'm actually thinking of doing some extensive world building here soon to solidify the primary world I want to work in going forward and I wonder how difficult it might be perceived to be when you have two unrelated stories, but you want them to take place in the same world. Since I'm only editing right now until I get these two novels finished, I feel like having a meaty project can't hurt.
Do any of you ever world build after you've finished your story? Just to flesh out details or keeps things consistent?
I'm actually thinking of doing some extensive world building here soon to solidify the primary world I want to work in going forward and I wonder how difficult it might be perceived to be when you have two unrelated stories, but you want them to take place in the same world. Since I'm only editing right now until I get these two novels finished, I feel like having a meaty project can't hurt.