Models/Layouts?

I wanted to be all snarky and say I stopped using legos as writing aids when I was 12, but it'd be a lie.

I don't make ships, but I do reconstruct battles with medieval-themed legos.

It starts out as story boarding, then gets all weird when I realize I've been going "Pew! Clang! Chrrrr! ChingChing Chank!" and racking up a lego bodycount for hours.

I have two WIP based on the same world. I've drawn maps and named all the geographic features to aid my writing.

If you're a fantasy writer, of course you've done that. It's the #1 fetish of amateur fantasy writers.

We're talking LEGOS here!

ARGH! And I just gave away allll myyy legggggooooos.

I built a virtual model of the orbital habitat that figures prominantly in one of my novels. I also built a virtual model of the prison facility that is the primary setting for another novel. Mostly, though, I find textual description is sufficient.

BUT DID YOU DO IT WITH

One of the great things about having kids is that I get to design spaceships play with legos whenever I want. I like the red ones best.

those are pretty intricate.

dclary said:

I wanted to be all snarky and say I stopped using legos as writing aids when I was 12, but it'd be a lie.

I don't make ships, but I do reconstruct battles with medieval-themed legos.

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Odd that you mention that. I wrote my first novel at age 10-11. It was a sci-fi story inspired by the Legos I played with at the time. Maybe this is more common than we want to admit.

Dioramas?

...um...

I drew sketches of my characters, their outfits, and maps of cities.

This was for a military SF novel.

Does that count?

I act out sword fights by picking one up and telling the Old Man to 'just stand there a minute while I swing at you.'

Doesn't work very well - he keeps getting out of the way

I would use lego - only my son gets annoyed if I break his spaceships and their turnip cannons

Hmm. I draw things, but I've never made a 3D representation of a setting. I occasionally make aliens and other things out of modelling clay though.

I'm not very good at thinking in three dimensions, not to mention the fact that I suck at any sort of artistic endeavor other than writing so I don't do things like this. Not to say I wouldn't LIKE to, however.

I've sketched up rough maps and layouts of settings, though. I'd like to do artwork of settings in my stories since I can picture them in my head, and describe them in words, but like I said, translating them into artwork just seems beyond me. I'm not too good at drawing my characters, either. *sigh*

I don't put enough stress on things like unusual vehicles/transportation to warrant making models like that. I mean, my characters use canoes and horses and regular cars and stuff.

True Dat. BTW: Read Derek's web comic. It's intense, but pretty cool.

wow. that comic=excellent.

i just drew a layout of my (sailing) ship so i won't make myself crazy trying to remember where I put everything. if my legos weren't in deep deep storage at my parents house a thousand miles away, i would probably have to use them too. i tell myself i still have 'em so i can give them to my future children, but in reality, they're still around because what if i need to make something out of lego?

I've acted out fight scenes with my kids before, but haven't had any opportunity to use their legos...yet. If I did use them, then they'd be a tax write-off, no?

-- Marcy