A breakthrough

[dolorosa_12]

I suddenly realised something about all the stories I've been writing. (That'd be Ravenstan, a story set in the same world that is an alt-universe story about the beginnings of Norman involvement in Ireland, my 'Sources' story and my 'strict hierarchy' story.)

They're all set in the same world.

It's a world that is neither wholly imaginary nor an alternative version of our own. Rather, it's a world that is formed out of echoes of, and resonances from, our own world. It's built out of our tropes and dreams and stories and myths. This is most apparent in Ravenstan, where there are 'Flower Children' who are not really flower children, a province called 'Lyonesse' whose capital is 'Tintagil', and a group known as 'those crazed Ilium types' who are essentially Iliad LARPers.

What this all means is another question.

Comments

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

That's kinda neat! So now you get to explore different aspects of the world through your stories... and maybe even aspects of this world.

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's kind of the idea. Although you could also say that it's just me being lazy with the world-building.