tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post4285185462782349506..comments2024-03-29T03:45:01.236-07:00Comments on TalkToYoUniverse: Cheerios and Space - and Language and Culture?Juliette Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-34506735857037634172010-09-10T11:22:36.875-07:002010-09-10T11:22:36.875-07:00Jaleh, I thought it was cute, too - today is the f...Jaleh, I thought it was cute, too - today is the first I've heard of it! Maybe you could find yourself a jeweler to consult? :) Seriously, I think social interaction is often overlooked in worldbuilding. Social interactions are generally plot-related and world-related enough in good books, but I think there are still opportunities being missed. It's important to stay away from interactions that only do what the author needs to push the plot forward, and looking for places where the particulars of interaction can demonstrate your world's social structure is one way to work against that.<br /><br />I think it's important to note that social principles are not like laws of physics in one critical way - they can be broken, and they're not absolute - but in the way that they give evidence of themselves on different levels of scale, I think it's a fruitful comparison.Juliette Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-70244320196710866362010-09-10T10:24:30.435-07:002010-09-10T10:24:30.435-07:00I love the term "Cheerios affect." I'...I love the term "Cheerios affect." I've watched my Cheerios do that but never paid attention to it before. Social interaction is an area I need to develop for my YA WIP. For example my MC is a jeweler, but being a girl, I need to define, at least to myself, how commonplace that would be in order to suggest possible conflicts relating to that. Social principles on par to laws of physics. Nice!Jaleh Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04942272578488986874noreply@blogger.com