How long until Esper and Cupcake converge as beings? Esper becomes like Cupcake, Cupcake becomes like Esper, and the universe implodes with a cutestness
>Please leave my cake by the cave entrance.|| On a scale of 1 to 10, how mad would you be if, hypothetically, she worked her cakebutt off in exchange for ROCK SOLID ABS? Hypothetically speaking.
>but she's not coming out of her room. || Oh I abducted her. I was planning on sending her to meguca boot camp. Turns out it she needs a parent or guardian's permission, though.
>but she's not coming out of her room. || She's just... vividly remembering her time visiting the cakeist. And looking up how to decorate newly baked cakes.
Planning the world should be part of planning the plot, and therefore progress. You shouldn't just design a world without the story in mind, otherwise you should be making an RPG or something instead.
Well, depends on how you work and what you're trying to do. I've been around the block enough to see the value of many different ways of tackling issues. Sometimes plot is super important and should govern everything (say, a mystery story), other times it's all about the expressing a mood, idea, or a highly polished fragment (like Kafka's very short works), sometimes it's best to have a very simple elements that showcase the world (stuff like BLAME! -- especially those chapters where Killy just walks from point A to B). But yeah, point taken -- sometimes world planning has to be done alongside the work on the plot.
Dan you're right that planning the world isn't progress. This is one of the most basic and well known mistakes that beginner fantasy novelists make, and causes many of them never to write the first novel. What's most important is the drama, not the stage.
I know, I know. I did it right the first time with Nana. Simple and readable!