HOW TO NOT “TOUR” YOUR WORLD BUILDING
HOW TO NOT “TOUR” YOUR WORLD BUILDING by: Captain Andrews Introduction to this post: When writing your story, it can be so much fun to create a fictional world or mock a factual world . However, it is important to be mindful when you a re world building to do so in a realistic way that respects the place and land it’s inspired by. This means to be mindful of the Western lens we can often have of other places around the world. Of course this does apply more to using real places around the world and less so to fantastical places such as Middle Earth. To furth er explain this idea, I’d like to take the time to explain what I mean by a western lens, tourism: the place vs. The hype, and how to research. Note: This blog is written through the analyzation of what was learned from: Stranger in the Eco-Village: Race, Tourism and Environmental Time Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon. ...