tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417850843973944836.post265696030418145480..comments2024-02-27T00:19:14.984-08:00Comments on Burning Zeppelin Experience: ParacosmogenesisMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16741134687274260833noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417850843973944836.post-19280539820328090722009-01-07T21:02:00.000-08:002009-01-07T21:02:00.000-08:001. At what age did you first construct your paraco...1. At what age did you first construct your paracosm? My memory is not that exact. I think I must have been about 14. I started creating elaborate stories before my first real paracosm.<BR/><BR/>2. Do you remember what aspects of paracosm you began with—story, history, environment, character, etc? It started with a map. I drew my first map on a regular letter size paper, then obtained a large piece of drafting vellum from my older brother and enlarged it using colored pens.<BR/><BR/>3. Were you moved to represent your paracosm outside the privacy of your head? If so, by what means? See the previous answer. I also began writing an atlas and inventing characters.<BR/><BR/>4. Did you share your paracosm with anyone? Yes, my two older brothers and a cousin all created maps of our paracosms and combined them so each one was a continent on a single planet. One of my brothers drew a representation of them divided into hemispheres like you see in an atlas of the Earth.<BR/><BR/>5. Have you met other paracosmologists? Yes indeedy.<BR/><BR/>6. How much faith did you put, if any, in the reality of your paracosm? It was always make believe.<BR/><BR/>7. Did you outgrow your paracosm or does it still play a significant part in your inner life? No.<BR/><BR/>8. If you've left your paracosm behind, when? What were the circumstances? Back in high school, I began trying to write a novel based in my paracosm, but have long since left it behind. Too many derivative ideas.<BR/><BR/>9. Have you been influenced by other paracosms/paracosmologies? I was hugely influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert Jordan.<BR/><BR/>10. Did your paracosm evolve over time? Mainly in becoming more detailed.<BR/><BR/>11. Do you think any factors in your biography contributed to your tendency towards paracosm? I was always very introverted and imaginative. It was probably inevitable already, and then I read Tolkien. Nuff said.<BR/><BR/>12. If you would, write a paragraph or two sketching in the broadest outlines of your paracosm for a lay reader. (What are its customs and myths? What does the material space look like? Who or what populates your paracosm? How is your paracosm most different from (or most similar to) the world we know? etc.)<BR/><BR/>Norrenna was an entire continent filled with at least nine different nations/cultures that I can remember, most of them based on standard Tolkienesque types but with magic similar to that in the Wheel of Time. That pretty much sums it up. The map was pretty unique, though.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12182579211549382453noreply@blogger.com