edenartfactory asked:
Conquering, Righteous, Distant, Giving, Vengeful, Mortal. Months correspond to each in this order
3rd Voice nominated for big award!!!!!
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First print book is debuting at SPX in Bethesda/DC area September!!!!
3rd Voice book is happening.... Here's some in-progress proof materials. 1500 of them are being printed right now... You will be able to order it soon at Topatoco if you'd like.
This is looking like it will be THE BEST-LOOKING SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK I HAVE EVER MADE HONESTLY
Book will FORMALLY DEBUT at the Small Press Expo in September in DC. Come say hello if you are in the area PLEASE
the process advances
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Hey Mr. Dahm, I’ve been reading 3rd voice, and I love your worldbuilding. However, I know that you haven’t nor will you explain to the reader everything in the world. But I do want to know how you build your world in a way that:
1. You’re not overwhelmed
2. It seems so original
3. It’s beautiful to behold
And if you have a guide or questions you ask yourself before starting, that would be lovely to know. Best wishes, Anonymous * April 28, 2025
I can answer at least one of those pretty directly, but in general the solutions I’ve arrived at are around the idea of “working from wide to tight focus.” In terms of preliminary questions: ideally I begin with at least some sense of NARRATIVE: not “what the story will be exactly” but “what sort of things will the story work with” and try to build everything from that starting-point.
To not be overwhelmed, I try to maintain focus on the interests and moving-parts of characters in the story, and I try to treat setting-detail as supportive of the bigger ideas of the setting and the story. One big thing 3V is about is “looking backwards,” so the setting becomes a device to articulate that basic idea in a bunch of different ways, from a bunch of different perspectives, constantly. Having a guiding thematic throughline in place can help keep things ORGANIZED! You can still SIMULATE the immense, uselessly noisy detail of “reality,” but I think there’s diminishing returns on that. The details that stick are the ones that support the big ideas. For areas where the details are, in my estimation, worth keeping track of in specific, I keep a few different documents that I can refer back to. These get filled in spottily in advance, and I generally put stuff in bold when they’re locked-in publicly in the comic.
Don’t know what to say really about originality and beauty. I am frustrated by invented settings that are too rote. I am motivated by an interest in fantasy fiction before it got locked-in to its current uptight model. So much of this, I think, just comes down to being a little intentional with one’s interests: if you look outside of your immediate cultural surroundings, you get a bigger idea of what’s possible to imagine. Nothing comes from nowhere!!
hmtsworks asked:
Hello i saw a piece of art you made for the book the left hand of darkness and i was thinking of making a video about it since i just read it and so i wanted to ask you if it would be fine if i used the art you made for it in the video and credited you properly in the video. Please let me know
best
sure yes! thank u
3rd Voice 2nd anniversary video is NOW UP! It directly builds on the Launch Video from 2 years ago
