{"id":448,"date":"2010-08-13T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2010\/08\/13\/30-days-of-writing-12\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T05:25:00","slug":"30-days-of-writing-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2010\/08\/13\/30-days-of-writing-12\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Writing: #12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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I can’t draw maps like this.  At all.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of world\u00adbuild\u00ading? Any side-notes on it you\u2019d like to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure this has already kinda been asked before…and my answer is more or less the same. Nagnomei is by far my favorite world, probably because I built it from “scratch”. including geography, culture, and religion. I’ve managed to work out almost all the kinks by now, and that’s a huge thing for me.<\/p>\n

Probably the way it’s changed the most since I first imagined it is the size – the continent used to take up both northern and southern hemispheres of the planet. As I got older I realized how dumb this was and scaled it back so it’s now a northern continent only. The far north is the southern arctic area, and instead of a “south pole” the southern most parts are just coastal (although ironically not tropical). I also had to do this because parts of the series includes traveling the entire continent on horseback, and this needs to be done within at least 3-months-time. This also forced me to perfect the inter-kingdom highway system – gotta make sure all those major villages are easily accessible, right? Right.<\/p>\n

The best part about working with a whole continent that includes almost every major geographic feature – plains, desert, jungle, mountains, foggy coast, valleys – is that I can just keep expanding parts of it as I need\/want. And for someone who has an imagination as cray-cray as mine, that’s a plus beyond measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t draw maps like this.  At all. 12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of world\u00adbuild\u00ading? Any side-notes on it you\u2019d like to share? I’m pretty sure this has already kinda been asked before…and my answer is more or less the same. Nagnomei is by far my favorite world,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[316,276,268,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","category-meme","category-nagnomei","category-setting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRtqI-7e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}