Muse Food – Sunset Rituals
What happens in your world when the sun (or suns) set? When the light turns to dark?
Does the mood change? Does the tempo change? Do your characters change? Do they have rituals or routines they do when the sun sets? Do they sleep? When do they sleep?
All this is part of world building and sharing it can draw readers deeper into your story.
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Muse Food – Fairy Houses And Other World Building Hints
When the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I visited Iceland, we were fascinated by the fairy houses, tiny homes crafted by humans for the hidden folk.
In a story, structures like that would be a strong hint we weren’t in a purely human world. It is a hint of magic, of the paranormal, of the unknown.
And hints like these are powerful in storytelling and for worldbuilding.
Because a much beloved story technique is to, at first, make a world seem like the reader’s world here in present day Earth. That is comfortable. It is relatable. The reader can focus on the characters.
Then we slowly introduce the unusual world-specific elements, pushing the reader out of their comfort zones.
Little hints such as fairy houses or a clockwork-like clicking sound deep in a forest or upside down rain are great ways to start this transition.
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Muse Food – Icelandic Horses And The Creatures We Domesticate
Why did humans domesticate
horses and not moose
honeybees and not yellowjackets
bunnies and not rats?
The species beings choose to domesticate, to bring into or bring close to their homes, say a lot about those beings – what they value, what they are hoping to gain from the other species, their relationship with the rest of the world and more.
Which species have the characters in your worlds domesticated? Why were THOSE species chosen?
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Muse Food – Fruit And Being The First
When the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I travel, we encounter many new-to-us edible fruits, vegetables and other foods.
We also encounter many new-to-us fruits and vegetation that would kill us or make us very ill if we consumed them.
And often, there isn’t much visible difference between the two groups.
So how did we, humans, figure out what we could eat or couldn’t eat?
Trial and error.
If the first person to eat the fruit or vegetation (or fish or animal or insect) died or became very ill, the rest of our ancestors knew not to consume it.
Yep, our current food system was built on that level of sacrifice.
I remember that when worldbuilding in my stories. A character wouldn’t arrive at a new-to-them place and know instinctively what was safe to eat or drink. They would have to be told or have a device that tested food and beverage or some other means of determining that.
Or they risk dying.
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A cyborg and a spy fly into danger.
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The G Model cyborg must fly to a distant planet, locate the sector-destroying superweapon the enemy is projected to be developing there, and obliterate that threat to the universe.
When Drift arrives at his destination and meets with an informant, he’s distracted by a mysterious human female seated in the shadows. She’s Drift’s genetic match, and she is the one being he’s destined to care for, claim, and protect.
She’s also a liar and a thief. And she might be working with the enemy.
Trusting her could kill him and everyone he cares about.
Liar. Thief. Seductress. Saboteur. Roshini has been called all of those things. And she has earned each label. She’s done some terrible things to safeguard the beings she loves.
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She’ll sacrifice everything, including her lifespan, to complete her self-appointed top-secret assignment.
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