 Fantasy: August 25, 2010 Issue [#3932] |
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This week: Instead of Money Edited by: Storm Machine  
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Not every society runs on money. Fantasy is a great genre to expand ideas about different ways to run societies. What does it take to get people to participate in the world they live in?
One thing I've wondered is about the society in Star Trek. They said they got rid of money - that antiquated notion - but I'm not sure I caught what they did instead. How do they stop people from just staying in bed all day doing nothing? They managed to achieve world peace, too, if you can believe the sparkly exterior.
In Extras by Scott Westerfeld, a Japanese city is built on a reputation economy. The two ways to get things for yourself is to build up merits by doing works for the community or by getting a higher face rank. Face rank goes up if something is created, like a shirt someone designed or reading a poem, that is part of the public works.
Take care to work in the details to make the economy work. Find the things the character needs to get motivated to make something of him- or herself. Not every character has the gumption to simply do it. (For a good example of gumption, try Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. She said she just wanted to write about people who had gumption, and others who didn't.) Imagine more than one place in the world you're creating - if all the nobles at the top get everything, who's at the bottom who gets nothing?
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Ray Morgan
Hi, thanks for all the newsletters. There really helpful. What works for me with characters is finding there real life look-a-likes. I search dating sites and networking communities for pictures of deferent people, deferent ages, ext. So I have a very big data base of people. Every time I need a new character I start there. If I need a reminder of what they look like, I simple go to there photo. It also helps make them seem more real on paper.
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