{"id":507,"date":"2014-01-23T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T15:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneyearnovel.wpengine.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:32:18","slug":"story-world-maps-worthwhile-or-a-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/story-world-maps-worthwhile-or-a-waste-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Story World Maps &#8211; Worthwhile or a Waste of Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Daniel Schwabauer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is Part 4 of an ongoing mini-series chronicling the &#8220;story of a story&#8221;: Daniel&#8217;s work-in-progress, a swordpunk novel.<br \/>\n<a title=\"What to Do with a Story Idea That Won\u2019t Give Up on You?\" href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/what-to-do-with-a-story-idea-that-wont-give-up-on-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1: <strong>What to Do with a Story Idea That Won&#8217;t Give Up on You?<\/strong> \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"When Your \u201cPerfect\u201d Story Falls Flat\" href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/when-your-perfect-story-falls-flat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2: <strong>When Your &#8220;Perfect&#8221; Story Falls Flat<\/strong> \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Growing a Story from the Spine Out\" href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/growing-a-story-from-the-spine-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 3: <strong>Growing a Story from the Spine Out<\/strong> \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/Story-World-Maps-Worthwhile-or-a-Waste-of-Time-500px.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-519 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/Story-World-Maps-Worthwhile-or-a-Waste-of-Time-500px.jpg\" alt=\"Story World Maps - Worthwhile or a Waste of Time 500px\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/em>Shadow Writing, Part 4<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Writing is work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know this sounds obvious to anyone who has written. But <strong>non-writers sometimes react to this idea with shades of disbelief.<\/strong> \u201cHow hard can it be? It\u2019s just words. You should try teaching\/pouring concrete\/waiting tables!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>But writers know. Writing is work.<\/strong> Which means that sometimes it&#8217;s rewarding and enlightening and fulfilling. And other times <strong>we can\u2019t stand the thought of facing our unfinished novel, can\u2019t stand the thought of all those blank pages, can\u2019t bring ourselves to sit for hours in front of a blinking cursor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone, in every line of work, has those days. And that\u2019s okay. As writers, those are <strong>the days when we get other things done<\/strong>. The office gets cleaned, the oil in the car is finally changed, the sock drawer is arranged by color. <strong>Procrastination can be useful.<\/strong> Without it my dogs would never get a bath.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But eventually we must face the main task of being a writer, which is writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unless you are lucky enough to <strong>find a diversion that helps you write without making you write<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I stumbled across a non-writing activity that actually <strong>fueled my imagination<\/strong>. It made certain <strong>colorless sections of my work-in-progress come to life<\/strong>, which meant that I could do it without feeling guilty. (My sock drawer, no longer tidy, now throws silent accusations at me every morning.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>I started making maps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My justification for mapmaking was the complexity of my novel, <em>In the Shadow of the Wise<\/em>. <strong>Of course I needed a map. How else would I know how long it took my characters to travel through the Gallian mountains on horseback? How else would I know where to place the Old Quarter of Serapis? Mapmaking wasn\u2019t procrastination. It was my job!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, I had read a quote from Tolkien that gave my world-building idea the barest tinge of credibility:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If you&#8217;re going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you&#8217;ll never make a map of it afterwards.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See? Tolkien had suggested it. It must be a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Alert to this new danger of finishing a novel too soon (that is, without a map), I threw myself into the non-procrastinative labors of inventive cartography.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise when <strong>I discovered that I really wasn\u2019t just postponing my rough draft. The maps were actually helping me to visualize the world<\/strong> of Rhega, its cities and mountains and deserts<strong>\u2014even its cultures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that I\u2019ve always used maps. For The Legends of Tira-Nor series I created a total of five maps covering three books. But this process spanned several years, and was undertaken as a necessity rather than as a bit of self-serving procrastination.<\/p>\n<p>For <em>Shadow<\/em> I planned 13 maps, all drawn to relative scale. 9 of the 13 were completed in two weeks.<strong> I started with a map of the planet and worked inward<\/strong>: the southern half of Lorica (the continent on which most of the action takes place); the Blackwater Valley; the Seven Falls region; the city of Tyris; Gregor\u2019s Abbey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/South-Lorica.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-515 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/South-Lorica.jpg\" alt=\"South Lorica map @Daniel Schwabauer\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/Serapis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-516 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/Serapis.jpg\" alt=\"Serapis map @Daniel Schwabauer\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/Blackwater-Valley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-517 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/Blackwater-Valley.jpg\" alt=\"Blackwater Valley map @Daniel Schwabauer\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In mapmaking I <strong>re-discovered something I had learned as a child<\/strong> in public school and then forgotten. During boring lectures I sometimes drew worlds on graph paper; the maps I drew would <strong>suggest images and daydreams and stories<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I should have known from personal experience that <strong>a map is really a frame. If you give your imagination a suitable container, your mind will try to fill it. The movie-making engine of your imagination will look for connections and meaning.<\/strong> It will try <strong>to connect the dots, to make sense, to fill in the blanks<\/strong>. This is why car headlights can look like eyes, or a drain pipe can look like a mouth, or a cloud can look like an elephant.<\/p>\n<p>If the setting of your work-in-progress is foggy and ethereal, try giving your imagination something to work with. <strong>Give it boundaries and definition. Give it a map.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You might discover <strong>a world coming to life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Procrastination, like daydreaming, can occasionally be useful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daniel Schwabauer<\/strong><br \/>\nWriting is work. I know this sounds obvious to anyone who has written. But non-writers sometimes react to this idea with shades of disbelief. \u201cHow hard can it be? It\u2019s just words. You should try teaching\/pouring concrete\/waiting tables!\u201d But writers know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13744,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,81,11,223,40],"tags":[133,134,135,136,67],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daniels-writing-log","category-push-your-imagination","category-writing","category-world-building-2","category-writing-tips-and-tools","tag-giving-imagination-boundaries","tag-mapmaking","tag-mapping-story-world","tag-procrastination","tag-swordpunk","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.9 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Story World Maps - Worthwhile or a Waste of Time? -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/story-world-maps-worthwhile-or-a-waste-of-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Story World Maps - Worthwhile or a Waste of Time?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daniel Schwabauer Writing is work. 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