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How long have you been worldbuilding? (lemmy.radio)

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I have things that I can confidently call conworlds going back to my middle school days in the late 90s.

My current Lonely Galaxy setting is a rework of an earlier project I called variously The Last Grand Adventure or En after the in-universe name of the world. It has roots going back to my freshman year of college in the early 2000s.

I conworld mainly as a means of escapism. My current conworld was born out of a time of extreme stress. I couldn't handle the real world, so I retreated into my own. Perhaps not the most healthy way to cope, but eh.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Not long. I've been interested in it for years, but never wrote anything myself until less than 2 years ago when i started my current big project.

My love of some of the works that have inspired my stuff is much older, of course. I grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Douglas Adams, and various fairy tales and novels i only vaguely remember now.