Shards
Scope
The motivation behind building Shards
It's time to plan for Summer Camp. I know that I want to create a new world, explore something different, but I'm wasn't sure what would be its purpose. After long consideration I decided to pick one of those ideas that seemed to have potential but I couldn't work with. Start again with a different approach. In other words: I'm here to try and design the setting for a story (currently titled Shards, it has another name when I tried to write it in Spanish, a long time ago).
The goal of the project
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A setting for Shards, the kind of setting that will inspire me into writing the story and allow me to make sense to some elements that aren't working in the original idea.
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To make sense to some elements that aren't working in the original idea of Shards.
Shards's Unique Selling point
I'll let you know when I find out.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Theme
Genre
This is meant to be a relatively simple urban fantasy setting for a dark (we'll see how dark) fantasy story.
Reader Experience
Half monotonous, half mysterious.
While full of magic, the company premises look quite ordinary (and not only for the employees that see it as a regular workplace). The little things out of place, the questions and their answers, ominous items and dangerous secrets are only found by those who know what they are looking for. And the protagonist, of course; protagonists are magnets for trouble.
Reader Tone
There is always darkness in the secrets and the loss. Yet the Shards remain bright, for better or for worse.
Recurring Themes
There are no accidents, only mistakes.
There is no good luck, only hard work.
Sometimes the wrong person pays.
Secrets
Barter
Second Chances
Character Agency
There are two types of characters in this setting: the ones who can control nothing but themselves, and those who have power over a lot of things but at the same time don't own themselves.
Sometimes someone gets the chance to decide which kind they want to be. Others fight with all their might to obtain that opportunity.
Focus
Drama
Shards and related stories by Escritora Novata is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Images for headers and backgrounds are from http.pixabay.com—though they may have been slightly edited. |