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* The Major Idea. The Major Idea is the preconceived idea that a user has at the time that they joined IxWiki. This is almost always the central concept of the country as well as any set piece side lore thought about before creating the country. This is the foundational step for every user, but also arguably the easiest of the lore to create. The Major Idea, in its form, can basically be summarized as an “elevator pitch”. The Major Idea will subsist a user for awhile as they establish their pages and get their bearings. It will eventually deplete and is not an infinite source of lore, although it can help to inform developed lore in its themes and concepts. | * The Major Idea. The Major Idea is the preconceived idea that a user has at the time that they joined IxWiki. This is almost always the central concept of the country as well as any set piece side lore thought about before creating the country. This is the foundational step for every user, but also arguably the easiest of the lore to create. The Major Idea, in its form, can basically be summarized as an “elevator pitch”. The Major Idea will subsist a user for awhile as they establish their pages and get their bearings. It will eventually deplete and is not an infinite source of lore, although it can help to inform developed lore in its themes and concepts. | ||
* The Read Idea. The Read Idea is objects, ideas, and concepts that the user has read about, heard about, or seen in the real world and has imported into the world in some form. This is not a bad thing. The Read Idea is often the refuge of a user with writer’s block and can help them move their writing forward, especially if they can find real world analogues to their country or things that might work with their country. The Read Idea is the most labor-intensive of the three sources in that, rather than ideas being generated, it requires the user to go seeking | * The Read Idea. The Read Idea is objects, ideas, and concepts that the user has read about, heard about, or seen in the real world and has imported into the world in some form. This is not a bad thing. The Read Idea is often the refuge of a user with writer’s block and can help them move their writing forward, especially if they can find real world analogues to their country or things that might work with their country. The Read Idea is the most labor-intensive of the three sources in that, rather than ideas being generated, it requires the user to go seeking and reproducing something that already exists, remaking it in a lore friendly way. | ||
* The Developed Idea. The Developed Idea is the “ideal” lore. It is lore that is developed partly or completely organically based only on existing lore (the Major Idea and possibly the Read Idea). By emerging out of lore, it is truly unique and original lore that greatly enhances or can even alter the Major Idea. The Developed Idea is the realm of experienced users and nearly always the “skill filter” through which new users fail. Developed Ideas are fundamentally iterative and are often the type of lore that “dawns” on a user while reviewing their own lore or “out of the blue”. | * The Developed Idea. The Developed Idea is the “ideal” lore. It is lore that is developed partly or completely organically based only on existing lore (the Major Idea and possibly the Read Idea). By emerging out of lore, it is truly unique and original lore that greatly enhances or can even alter the Major Idea. The Developed Idea is the realm of experienced users and nearly always the “skill filter” through which new users fail. Developed Ideas are fundamentally iterative and are often the type of lore that “dawns” on a user while reviewing their own lore or “out of the blue”. | ||