"The first draft of anything is sh*t."
-Ernest Hemingway
Ayup. Looking over my Kelvernia setting fluff from 2009, I am rapidly approaching the conclusion that it is pretty much junk. I think I will try to salvage the place names just because I want to keep the map (aka "I am a Lazy Sot"), but most of the written up stuff will need to go.
Why? Well when I wrote this, the setting was heavily house-ruled. This included things like no demi-humans and no clerics. As a result, the way the nations are described reflects this. Soooo, it's time to revise/scrap the old text and try again.
Don't despair. Sometimes you just need to "get it all out" first. Now you know what needs to be added, what's essential, what needs to be moved, what needs to be rewritten, and what needs to be cut.
ReplyDeleteIt's not wasted effort.