July 2021 Update and Goals
((Above image is a collection of things I spent July working on))
Fevarik: Traditional Clothing. I didn't like how the robes were entirely East Asian inspired with very tiny changes here and there. I want to keep that inspiration but I also want to make it more unique and less...space asia. (might keep the original article linked somewhere as I did enter it in the costume competition.)
Regalti Food. I'm going to start with an article detailing food sources first. Some idea of animals the Regalti commonly eat are in the image at the top of this page. I think it is a better idea to get food sources first, then I can start to hammer out what their cuisine looks and tastes like from there. That's basically what this article was from the start anyways.
Update
Hope worldbuilding is going well for anyone reading this, as this year so far has been disappointing for me.
What work did I actually do towards building this world? I made two plant articles, a food article, restarted one article, finished images for another one, and made a clothing article for an ethnicity that I have made almost nothing else for. Also I got two articles featured for a day (assuming they were featured as they had a spike in views/like in a single day), A Star System article with images and descriptions of all the planets, and an article about a Restaurant that had the food menu but was missing its drink menu.
Unpublished are several more plant articles, an article about how regalti count numbers, a new sentient species, and several articles in progress that aren't really describable.
This is cool and everything, and it's probably more than others, but I'm disappointed. Not because I haven't made any progress, but because everything I have written over the last year is kind of an unorganized mess, barely related to the fact that it all involves the Regalti in some way. Also, every single word of the Regalti languages has been made up nonsense with no basics or structure to speak of, and since I have around a thousand words now....yeah...
To put it in the simplest way I can: I need to finally ORGANIZE my world.
Goals for 2021
July - Organization
Time for a Purge: A bunch of articles I'm not happy with are going to be tagged for deletion. I actually deleted around a dozen a few months ago since they were not up to the standard I want, but now even more are probably going to go. Not sure yet as I need to read everything I have written in this world so far (around 70,000 words). This might take some time because there are a few articles I'm rather attached to, though they kind of suck. ((Update 7/31/2021: Articles that are marked for deletion/rewrite are now marked with a container at the top of the page)) |
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Categories and Tags: I have yet to make a single tag and the categories and other organizationleave much to be desired. I need to concentrate on this as it will make life way easier going forward. First tag I ever make for this world will be classifying this article as a blog post. COMPLETE. World has 8 main categories. Sub categories can be added as I go. There are dozens of tags now, found in Master Tag List. ((Update 7/32/2021: All Articles now have Tag references.)) |
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Variables and Glossary: I originally made a World bible/ Glossary article to include short entries on every single thing in my world, in 50-100 words. Then the Variable feature was released. I like having both, but the two systems need to say the same thing, and the Glossary needs to be split into smaller articles.
((Update 7/31/2021: I'm realizing this will be a perpetual work in progress...I will continue work on this afer I finish the primary August Goal..)) |
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Summer Camp?: Has as much chance to happen as I do getting my money back from my Dogecoin investment (Still holding at $0.31!!!). I think that writing a bunch of unrelated articles is what got me into my percieved mess to begin with, and yeah I understand that the prompts are in groups this year, but I still couldn't think of anything good to write. Hopefully I have the motivation to participate in World Ember in a few months! FAILED. Kinda knew it was going to happen... |
August - Fevarik Regalti pt. 1
Vevari Language: I need to start a foundation of the language first. I'm getting tired of making up words with no real meaning or relation to each other. Nothing else matters for the month of August. The Vevari Language has its entire basis on colors and numbers as root words for nearly everything. And nearly every modern word is derived from compound root words that were then morphed, condensed, and respelled, and reformed to make the modern language. Having words that make sense are more important than grammar or a working alphabet right now, but those will be worked on too. Also note that I am not a conlanger. I speak fluent American English, can carry a conversation in Spanish, and barely know enough Japanese to get in trouble. So...yeah. don't expect some award winning conlang or anything... Update 7/31/2021: Sub-Goals:: Phonology Spelling rules Pronouns Proto Word Formation and Derivation Verbs Adjectives Update 9/06/2021: Still working on it, but I restarted it twice, see the September Update post. |
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Fevarik Food: This might be a September project instead. I think you can tell alot about a culture by looking at the food they eat, and it also tells you alot about plants and animals that live around them as well. currently meandering around on what exactly their food should be based on.
I was going to go with Japan at first, then went to Tex-Mex and Italian, then started throwing other things in there, mostly from the Southern US. Now, I'm not sure what I want to do. The Regalti are Aliens, but I want their food to be something that us humans would find tasty and not too alien (but also have several things we never would never find tasty). |
September - Finishing Planet Collena, and starting an ecosystem
Planet Collena: I started an article about the planet already, only going over a few physical features (Planet Collena). The fact that many mountain ranges are EMP fields impassible by vehicles is a minor part of the story, and the fact the Regalti have a lot of magnetic based technology is quite important....but to get there, I got to get some semi-science-y stuff out of the way with a bunch of lists and numbers. I have land masses and climates and mountain ranges already mapped and other basic information, but I just need to finish the article more than anything. | |
Biomes: The spot on the map that I have for the Fevarik Regalti is in a warm oceanic or humid subtropical climate that gradually turns more continental and then cool and tundra-like once you hit the mountains in the northwest. In order to make the land they live on believable, I want to detail no less than four major ecosystems with the plants and animals that live there. I actually started this quite a while ago, but I never typed most of it on World Anvil. |
October - Fevarik Regalti Pt. 2
Fevarik Regalti: Now that I have the basics of their language, their food, and the place they live, I need to actually write an article about the Fevarik Regalti themselves. What nations are they affiliated with. What's their history? Why do they wear what they wear? What are their unique customs? What are the basics of their religion? Etc. | |
Vefaria: Primary nation of the Fevarik Regalti. Population: 25 million. Over a million square kilometers in size, Almost completely uninhabited now thanks to The Exodus, the people of this land live traditionally like they always have, with little care for what the vast majority of Regalti are doing in space...Also need to detail their major cities (or what's left of them), their economy, etc. |
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