🤔 worldbuilding

media famous for world-building tend to end with a high known:unknown ratio
- leave a feeling of "there's so much more here we didn't get to see"
- let the reader fill in the blanks for much of the world
as a story (novel, series) goes on, ratio tends to decline

similar to stories that have a driving "mystery"
- but, once it gets resolved... one of the main motivations for the reader is gone

2025-08-18

#writing #storytelling #worldbuilding