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<blockquote data-quote="apoptosis" data-source="post: 3463399" data-attributes="member: 3226">This is probably the fundamental disagreement then. WHAT is considered world-building?&nbsp; What you defined as world-building, I do not.&nbsp; I think what you described is setting (detailing) the narrative.&nbsp; I believe world-building in reference to writing is basically &quot;intrusion of reams of information in the narrative&quot;By this I mean you can world-build behind the scenes and it never really enter the story except to flesh out the setting of the narrative and give it a living/breathing feel (This is actually not a bad use of it). Frankly the reader never really knows you have &quot;world-built&quot;But world-building as I see it (in fiction) is when the world-building takes place in the narrative.&nbsp; Where the writer basically info dumps about his world which is basically irrelevant to the narrative.This is without a doubt not a fine line and there is a lot of grey area (info dump vs making the setting seem real); but I do know that I can recognize when it happens and I tend to see it as the mark of poor fiction writing in general (there are always exceptions to this).Apop</blockquote>

[QUOTE="apoptosis, post: 3463399, member: 3226"] This is probably the fundamental disagreement then. WHAT is considered world-building? What you defined as world-building, I do not. I think what you described is setting (detailing) the narrative. I believe world-building in reference to writing is basically "intrusion of reams of information in the narrative" By this I mean you can world-build behind the scenes and it never really enter the story except to flesh out the setting of the narrative and give it a living/breathing feel (This is actually not a bad use of it). Frankly the reader never really knows you have "world-built" But world-building as I see it (in fiction) is when the world-building takes place in the narrative. Where the writer basically info dumps about his world which is basically irrelevant to the narrative. This is without a doubt not a fine line and there is a lot of grey area (info dump vs making the setting seem real); but I do know that I can recognize when it happens and I tend to see it as the mark of poor fiction writing in general (there are always exceptions to this). Apop [/QUOTE]

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