Assignment 2 - Part II

Write about what you choose as the most important category (from Ms. Wrede's list) for World-Building, and why.

For me it was by far, Daily Life with Diet as the subcategory. That is because the whole premise of my story is formed around a liquid substance of Life Stream that magic-using creatures extract from dead bodies and live criminals. This Life Stream extends the life of whomever drinks it, and changes the quality too. Magic extracts the life-giving force from humans and recycles so that the remaining members of this world can use it to live. By default it has some degree of contamination which contaminates the quality of the user's behavior. It can also be extracted in pure form which gives the user a cleaner, healthier life where they also live longer.

Final Story: Write about which method you plan to choose in writing the story or novel chapter for your Term Paper: macrocosm to microcosm (top-down) or microcosm to macrocosm (bottom-up) or a combination. Explain why you choose this pattern.

Without going into the whole thing, because I am still a little sketchy on it, I chose this category because my book is born to be a from microscopic to macroscopic book. Everything in this book centers around Life Stream. The characters, the setting, the theme and the whole framework start here, and this concept of the substance of Life Stream is connected to every part of the book.

There will be an off-world white wizard who sends angelic messengers to the planet to battle the world as run by the black wizard with demons. I am trying as hard as possible to keep from making it any kind of preachy or "goody-goody" kind of book. Instead, I'd like to use the black and white god analogy of Jesus and Satan the way Homer and other Greek writers wrote fiction using their gods as characters. In a way, if I succeed it will be thought-provoking but not biased or religious in any other sense.