{"id":5465,"date":"2008-06-30T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T08:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2008-06-30T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T08:47:10","slug":"mapping-out-the-fiction-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/mapping-out-the-fiction-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Out the Fiction-verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Kleon wrote in may about the useful application of fictional places being mapped out.  World-building: it&#8217;s not just for fantasy and sci-fi writers anymore.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/17\/219-found-a-map-of-the-island-in-lost\/' class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/lostisland-partly.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lostisland-partly\" width=\"500\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5466\" \/><br \/>click for the entirety of LOST&#8217;s Island<\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>My undergrad thesis argued that world-building wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just for fantasy and sci-fi writers\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinkleon.com\/2008\/05\/21\/maps-of-fictional-worlds\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">every tale has a setting, every tale creates a world in the reader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mind\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand it explored ways that drawing that world (visual thinking!) can lead to better fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinkleon.com\/2008\/05\/21\/maps-of-fictional-worlds\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">my favorite \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ry\u00e2\u20ac\u009d books<\/a> are accompanied by maps. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those, like me, who forgot my previous post on maps(<a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4660\">Hello Mongo<\/a>) I re-introduce the <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Strange Maps blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinkleon.com\/2008\/05\/21\/maps-of-fictional-worlds\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">austin kleon<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Kleon wrote in may about the useful application of fictional places being mapped out. World-building: it&#8217;s not just for fantasy and sci-fi writers anymore. click for the entirety of LOST&#8217;s Island My undergrad thesis argued that world-building wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just for fantasy and sci-fi writers\u00e2\u20ac\u201devery tale has a setting, every tale creates a world in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,49,52,80],"tags":[4938,284,103,283,285,4949,106,286],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-comics","category-just-freaking-neat","category-map","tag-artist","tag-austin-kleon","tag-awesome","tag-fictionverse","tag-lost","tag-map","tag-naming-things","tag-the-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}