A world is magic and possibility.
Every new moment adds change, and that change, that potential motion, is anything and anywhere right up until the instant it happens. Then it’s canon. It’s story. It is written, and it invites the next potentiality.
That something left behind is the ink drying.
Worldbuilding is the groundwork for story.
I think Pratchett and Sanderson would agree that if you build the world properly, the characters will stay in character. If you know how the plumbing works, how the tax system works, and what people eat, then when a character walks down a street, you know exactly what they will do and say. They aren’t puppets anymore; they are responding to the gravity of the world you made.
Good worldbuilding creates natural friction. When you establish what is expensive, what is taboo, and what is physically impossible, you build a maze. Once you drop your characters into that maze, their choices dictate themselves because their motivations clash directly with the rules of the environment.
A world with a life of its own.
I postulate that, in this modern age, we can build a collaborative and exact process of world modeling that can not only enrich the written word but make it step right off the page and into the imagination.
The discovery of a process to create a place you could get lost in is my goal, as is understanding how giving the world a life of its own might enrich the lives of the characters who live in it.
“...I found that the air and the earth of the world I had created began to take hold of the inhabitants, forcing them into paths and histories I had not explicitly designed.”
The written word is only the start.
Working with award-winning film industry producers, I will bring my world and the stories written in it not just to the page but to the ear with a full production and audiobook cast, and to film using bleeding-edge visual technology, post-production, and modern distribution. If I can do it, so too can any other author.
I want authors to have a way forward without ever having to sell the rights to a story, and without the nightmare of watching that world be torn to pieces by an industry that, for the last ten years, has been dying of a starved imagination.
I hope to help usher in a golden age of storytelling, where a humble writer’s words can find sure footing in film, and the world they created remains their own.