I thought this week's assignment was going to be so quick and easy. Triage your World-building - surely I wouldn't have that much to do, right? I mean, I've done so much research and taken such pains to drip-feed it into the narrative.
How very, very wrong I was.
A three-page worksheet for every location (think stage set) in my story, complete with entrances and exits, props, scenery, and the cultural details revealed there. And I have 60 of the damned things! Thankfully they're not too heavy on the description, but they are full of tidbits of information about the social attitudes of the Elizabethans, mating habits of skraylings, and much more. By the time I was halfway through my manuscript, I had lost the will to live. Srsly.
I don't know if it was even necessary. But I feel I have to follow this course as closely as possible, at least on this run-through. It's learning a new recipe; the first time you really ought to follow it to the letter, to find out what the cook thought it ought to taste like. Afterwards you can experiment all you like, but on that first batch, you trust your instructor.
Lesson 8 had better be easier...
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