How Do I Make A Fantasy Society Convincing?
I’m having two problems, the first one is that I’m trying to create a unique government and society, with elements of socialism and communism, while still incorporating the main plot element, which is a coliseum like arena.
My second problem is I’m not really sure how to make this society convincing, which I know is very important. So I need some tips.
Thank you!
By: Free Hugs
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Filed under Books & Authors by on Jan 23rd, 2010. 
Comments on How Do I Make A Fantasy Society Convincing?
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Your plot should always be your main concern. You need to be able to tell a good story. The setting, in a sense, is designed to support the plot, to give it depth. Often times when people ask this sort of question, they havn’t got all the details of the story, or at least most of them firmly in mind. A plot starts out as merely an intreaging idea that we feel would make a great story but not all of the plot elements have been completely hashed out. You have this great world envisioned in your mind, a snippet of a story but without sitting down and figuring out the details you will struggle to make anything mesh.
I am speeking from personal experience. I have alot of good ideas but most don’t grow into anything real because I don’t give the idea the time it needs to really mature. But on the other hand, those ideas really start to come into the light when I start brainstorming the idea, discarding the dead leaves and pruning the off-shoots untill it works. Do the same with your fantasy world, brainstorm and trim away the dead ideas, water the seeds with potential untill you clearly know what you want to write. Then write it and it will come together.
But remember good story telling is always the most important thing. If spend page after page of scenery and governmental structure, explaining this great world you have developed, but fail to drive the plot foreward, the reader will loose interest.
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Well I don’t have any experience in this, but I would take a piece of paper and just start putting ideas down in a bubble graph just to organize my ideas. after getting the general ideas (socialism/communism, arena) down I would start focusing on how the government would actually runs. (congress/tribunal, president or monarchy, justice systems) now I don’t know how you are going to incorporate the ideas in your book. You could dump it all at the introduction of it, progressively explain it, or produce a sugar coated version in the introduction but as the story progresses you learn how corrupted and rotten it truly is. That’s my idea.
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You could try what David Eddings did and base your society on recognizable Earth societies. The Tolnedrans were obviously based on the Roman Empire and the Nyissans had shades of old Egypt.