Aangezien ik zelf bezig ben met het creëren van een fictieve wereld en tegen een paar veel problemen opliep, ben ik op basis van een filmpje vragen gaan zoeken om een wereld op te bouwen, net zoals je vragen stelt om een personage te maken. Dus ik dacht, waarom plaats ik deze vragen niet op Quizlet. Heb je zelf ook nog vragen voor erbij, gooi ze in een reactie, en ik plaats ze eronder.
1. What is the most important ideal to this culture as a whole? What would other countries say is the stereotype? (Brutally simplistic examples: America = freedom, French = romance) BONUS: How is this ideal positive, and how is it negative?
2. What is the setting of the culture? (History, myth and geographical location are huge huge huge players in the formation of culture.)
3. How did this culture come into being? How has it changed between then and the start of the novel?
4. How does the culture influence my protagonist? In what ways is the culture antagonistic? In what ways is it beautiful?
5. What are three detailed, specific things about this culture that I love? What are three that I hate?
6. What are exterior influences on the culture? Who’s living next door? What are relationships like between nations?
7. What does your culture look like to a native, and what does it look like to an outsider? (Place a native from your novel in an intensely cultural part of your world (for instance, a market place). Describe the scene. Then place a foreign character in the same setting, and describe it again.)
8. What is one yearly ceremony or celebration that is important to the culture (and your main character)?
9. What is one specific action/ritual/habit this culture has (and why)? How would they react to someone who breaks it? (Example: The Pashtun don’t throw away bread crumbs, they put them outside so the birds can eat them. If you brush off your shirt over a trashcan, they will take the trashcan and try to sweep the crumbs onto the ground outside.)
10. What things are you passionate about? (Example: books, dancing, music.) What things do you not understand, or wish you understood? (Example: child marriages, rednecks, monasteries, the “brotherhood of soldiers” trope.) Writing about these things will help fuel your diligence, but will also force you into a sort of seeking—and when you’re seeking, your culture will become more vivid.
11. What is this culture’s religion, and how does it effect daily life?
12. How does this culture treat its vulnerable–the children and the elderly? Are they burdens, are they honored, or something in-between?
13. What is the height of honor in this culture? (Examples: Giving one’s life to protect others, committing suicide rather than surrendering.) What is the height of dishonor?
14. How does courtship work in this culture? Who approaches who? How involved are parents?
15. How do fathers treat their daughters?
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-Basic place and time
-where you are, or whether your working in the past, present and future
-timeline showing how the world came to be, what past events have shaped the world the way it is now
-what rules are in place here?
-rules of society and the punishment for the individuals that break them
-what kind of government does this world have
-who has power and who doesn’t?
-what do people believe in here?
-what does this society value most?
-what’s the weather like in this world?
-where do the inhabitants live, work and go to school?
-what do they eat and how to they play?
-how do they treat their young and their old?
-what relationships do they have with the plants and animals of that world?
-what do that animals and plants look like?
-what kind of technology exists?
-transportation?
-communication?
-acces to information?
-how does this world you’ve created shape the individuals that live in it?
-what kind of conflict is likely to emerge?
Het filmpje waar het vandaan komt.
You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt
