Poetry World Building: Episode One

MAKE WORLDS AND READ WORLDS

What is a world? For this conversation anything bounded: a solar system, a cell, a company, a pond.

(references: Carnap, the phenomenologists, the set theorists, and people like Gabriel Markus who says worlds do not exist.)

    Step 1:
  • Give your world a name, categories like plants, animals, chemicals, colors, etc.
  • Give your world items in those categories: 4 names of plants, 3 names of chemicals.
    Step 2:
  • Populate your world. You have 4 animals now write what those four animals are.
  • Click the Generate Probabilities button. This will determine what items are in which world... kinda -its wonky - like our own world
    Step 3:
  • Write your world. This could also be called poetry or fiction or something new.
  • You can also clone another world and base your writing on that. In the programming biz we also call this forking. But I like to think of it as perhaps different bards telling different reditions of the same tale.

Create a new world

animals, climates, locations, objects... etc
The number of items in your category (e.g. 4 plants).

This is the first in what may or may not become a series of poetic world building experiments, inspired by Ed Steck's poetic world building process..

Turtles all the way down.