Project: Shadow

If you are working on your world building or wondering why your work feels unoriginal, then the problem isn’t really with your story, it is with your world building or lack thereof.

Janet at World Anvil has made a great video about this (here), and they have example pages (here and here).

Let’s talk about this starting point in world building.

If you want to support the work that I do, you can join the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cedorsett

YouTube Channel= https://www.youtube.com/user/cedorsett/

Site: https://www.projectshadow.com

Ash Dancer: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/ash-dancer

Barrens' End: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/barrens--end

Dragon's of Night: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/dragons-of-night

Princess Rescue Squad: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/princess-rescue-squad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cedorsett

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectshadowsite/

Whether it is the experience of People of Color, Women, or the Queer community, too many people refuse to believe stories from lives so different from our own. Why?

We mistakenly believe that we see the world as it is, or understand how the world works. We don’t. We tell ourselves stories. Every new piece of information we get, every new story we encounter, we both compare to our existing narrative and weave it in, but that weaving is the problem.

Other people’s stories are shaped and altered by the stories we already tell our self in order to fit them in. We have predefined shapes for those stories to take and will find a way to justify changing those stories so they work with our own meta narrative. So we don’t see the truth right before our eyes.

Until we are honest about this process, we will continue to reject stories different from our own until something happens so horrible it makes us question our own stories. The solution is simple. Always question the way you see the world and be proud to grow and change as your understanding of the world develops and changes.

If you want to support the work that I do, you can join the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cedorsett

YouTube Channel= https://www.youtube.com/user/cedorsett/

Site: https://www.projectshadow.com

Ash Dancer: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/ash-dancer

Barrens' End: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/barrens--end

Dragon's of Night: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/dragons-of-night

Princess Rescue Squad: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/princess-rescue-squad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cedorsett

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectshadowsite/

With everything going on in this country, the idea of diversity has become a buzzword, and I am afraid it is a momentary meme and not something we are dedicated to.

Some have finally had their eyes opened by the murder of George Floyd, but we can’t let this be the cause of the moment that we forget when the protests die down.

Black Lives Matter.

Diversity is not or at least should not be virtue signaling.

We have to fundamentally change or all of this is for nothing.

Gene Roddenberry said:

“If humanity is to survive, we will have learned to take delight in the essential differences between people and between cultures. We will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.”

That is how IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination) starts, but that is not the end of it.

IDIC means that our strength comes from our diversity and how we come together to make the world better for everyone.

If you want to support the work that I do, you can join the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cedorsett

YouTube Channel= https://www.youtube.com/user/cedorsett/

Site: https://www.projectshadow.com

Ash Dancer: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/ash-dancer

Barrens' End: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/barrens--end

Dragon's of Night: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/dragons-of-night

Princess Rescue Squad: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/princess-rescue-squad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cedorsett

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectshadowsite/

Creativity isn't free when it is encumbered by the requirements of privilege. We need more voices, not more of the same.

If you want to support the work that I do, you can join the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cedorsett

YouTube Channel= https://www.youtube.com/user/cedorsett/

Site: https://www.projectshadow.com

Ash Dancer: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/ash-dancer

Barrens' End: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/barrens--end

Dragon's of Night: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/dragons-of-night

Princess Rescue Squad: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/princess-rescue-squad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cedorsett

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectshadowsite/

Hope without action is pointless.

If you want to support the work that I do, you can join the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cedorsett

YouTube Channel= https://www.youtube.com/user/cedorsett/

Site: https://www.projectshadow.com

Ash Dancer: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/ash-dancer

Barrens' End: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/barrens--end

Dragon's of Night: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/dragons-of-night

Princess Rescue Squad: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/princess-rescue-squad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cedorsett

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectshadowsite/

Truth is a slippery devil, and when we hold on to it too tight, it becomes a poison that harms many.

If you want to support the work that I do, you can join the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cedorsett

YouTube Channel= https://www.youtube.com/user/cedorsett/

Site: https://www.projectshadow.com

Ash Dancer: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/ash-dancer

Barrens' End: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/barrens--end

Dragon's of Night: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/dragons-of-night

Princess Rescue Squad: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/princess-rescue-squad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cedorsett

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectshadowsite/

What is a community after all?

If you want to support the work that I do, you can join the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cedorsett

YouTube Channel= https://www.youtube.com/user/cedorsett/

Site: https://www.projectshadow.com

Ash Dancer: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/ash-dancer

Barrens' End: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/barrens--end

Dragon's of Night: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/dragons-of-night

Princess Rescue Squad: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/princess-rescue-squad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cedorsett

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectshadowsite/