Comments on: World building https://glendalarke.com/2006/04/world-building-2/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/04/world-building-2/#comment-25202 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:29:00 +0000 #comment-25202 Phew! Thank you for not beating me up over the minutes thing. Ever since I made the comment, I’ve been panicking over it. I even went back through HotM to see if I missed a ‘clock’ reference.

There are only two things that really bug me about novels. Measuring time is one of them, over use (which means using it more than once) of ‘try and’ is the other… But then, I have been told I am rather weird when it comes to things that bug me. In other words, you have nothing to worry about. 😉

Congratulations on a another great read, and forget about my weirdisms.

Cheers, Lisa.

PS I forgot to mention that I saw Gillian on the cultural panel at Conjure and felt that what she had to say was very pertinent. The woman knows her stuff! One good word from her regarding your world building should defeat a hundred little niggles like mine.

]]> By: glenda larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/04/world-building-2/#comment-25201 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:33:00 +0000 #comment-25201 Sorry about the minutes, Lisa! I did think about this – with several of my books, actually. And wonder how to tackle the time question. In the end I let it ride rather than invent a more indeterminant term to replace it. As far as you are concerned that was obviously the wrong decision for me to have made…

Even hours can be problematical in clockless societies.
I can remember back in the 1970s being told by a local indiginous forest trek guide here – upon asking him “How much longer is it going to take to get there?” – that it was another two cigarettes. Meaning the length of time it took to smoke two cigarettes. The local joke is that quite often a guide will stub out a cigarette halfway and smoke the rest later so that “one” cigarette can be extended to any length of time! Maybe I shall have to use that kind of measurement next time…
Anyway, Lisa, if ever the trilogy gets sold on to an overseas publisher, I shall change the word “minutes” and think of you…:-D

]]> By: Suzan Abrams, email: suzanabrams@live.co.uk https://glendalarke.com/2006/04/world-building-2/#comment-25200 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:03:00 +0000 #comment-25200 What an interesting, thought-provoking entry, Glenda! Here is the kind of content; refreshing and original that any writer could draw from. Your words portray a clever reflection of ideas and seduces me very quickly into a profound thought especially on the numerous ways of how creative writing could work. cheers,

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2006/04/world-building-2/#comment-25199 Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:37:00 +0000 #comment-25199 That was a nice compliment from Gillian … and well deserved, you do build worlds that are both readily credible and yet ‘different’ enough to be fascinating. :o)

Haven’t read Heart of the Mirage yet, so I can’t comment on the minutes thing.

Enjoy your travels. :o)

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/04/world-building-2/#comment-25198 Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:36:00 +0000 #comment-25198 Hi Glenda,

I really enjoy your worlds but (and I don’t want to upset anyone least of all you with this) I have to admit that there was one little thing pulling me out of ‘Heart of the Mirage’. Every time one of the characters mentioned time in term of minutes, I was knocked out of the world. How time is marked is one thing I, well, don’t obsess about but I do find it is something many authors miss the importance of.

In Tyr and Kardiastan, do they have a method of marking time in a measure as small as a minute? I can’t remember anyone mentioning a clock capable of measuring minutes, but I could have missed it.

That to the side, I really enjoyed ‘Heart of the Mirage’. Seriously looking forward to the rest of the story!

Cheers, Lisa.

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