For someone who has a ridiculously excellent sense of direction - I hardly ever get lost, I can 'see' the layout of new cities I visit after a couple of hours roaming and I wish the career of map-maker were more lucrative - I'm having a lot of trouble mapping my world.
BookEnd has a specific geography. Things it needs in certain places. The River, the Rish Sea, and places like
RiverTown, Idyllia and
Finis Terra City all need to interconnect the right way.
Don't get me the wrong. I routinely ignore the maps at the beginning of books, be it
Lord of the Rings or
The Princess Bride. I'm not that kind of reader. I'm good at suspending disbelief. If you tell me the hanging tree is north by northwest of the sacred rock, I'm like, whatever, when's the hanging and how is the heroine going to escape?
But while revising I keep hitting the 'where am I?' wall. I'm imagining two people by the North Pasture and I can't figure out if they look left or right towards the river. That's bad. So, to rectify that, I tried to draw a map. People, I have a masters degree in Fine Art. How come I can't do this?
Nothing looks right. It's more frustrating right now than correcting typos. Not sure if I'm concentrating on it as a distraction from revising, if it's imperative to sort out now, or both. So, anyone have any map-making ideas or resources?
Oh and some nice news. I was selected as a
finalist for the GUTGAA Blogfest Query Contest. Nice! Thanks Deana and Lora.
