Lanetta’s Excel-lent worldbuilding!
Awhile back I posted about worldbuilding and writing and such. I even threw in a heavy dose of Regency cant at the end.
In comments, my friend Lanetta mentioned that she does the worldbuilding for her books in Excel.
That intrigued me, and I asked her to blog about her process and I would link to it.
She did!
And now, a month later, I’m finally linking.
This is really interesting to me, because I never considered importing images into Excel.
I’ll still be using Scrivener [pooks recommends page] because of the degree of detail I need, but I can definitely see how Excel works, and it is often a program people already have. What are you tricks of the trade? How do you keep your research organized and your worldbuilding at your fingertips? Send pics! Tell me. I love this stuff.
That is interesting. I usually outline my more complex scripts in Excel, because it requires me to know what each character is doing at all times. And I always have a column for visual metaphors. But I’d never thought about bringing actual images into it.
To me, actual images makes a huge difference. You know, a picture being worth a thousand words and all.