Aug. 11, 2025 - World Building

World building is very demanding. I’ve never done it before but thought of Tolkien and wondered what he’d done at this stage in his story. I also considered the work of J K Rowling (Harry Potter) and C S Lewis (Narnia), but their worlds are more like the historical romantasy I'm currently pitching because they have transportation portals and a foot in two worlds. This new world I'm building is unique and as such a stand alone in that there's no time travel involved from one world to another. The story takes place on one custom planet. I worked for hours – probably way too many - without taking a break. I knew my body would rebel. I didn’t care. It was too much fun to be prudent and pace myself. Oh the joys of being physically handicapped!

Over the hours the regions of the new world began to take shape. The planet has three suns and three moons. Each one helps the inhabitants mark the passage of time – the time that marks a day, a month, a season, a year.

I created one region to correspond to each of the seven primary chakras - their energy, components, colours - that sort of thing. Next will come the need for the inhabitants of each region. So far I've created a species that have evolved from coniferous trees that live in a region related to the sacral chakra.

Choosing the names was hard, but fun. I always thought that naming a baby was the hardest part of being pregnant. This wasn’t much different. I turned to ancient Celtic words to act as the root for naming things in this new world. I tried to stay as phonetic as possible so the readers could manage the pronunciations.

Next came the humanoid inhabitants. I barely started on that. I decided I needed to save something for tomorrow!

Best wishes always…

Best wishes always...

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