Ideawell.smoothvega

Here is how i work an ideawell.

First thing I do is just get words down. Sometimes i copy down fantasy names and then real places in the world, mix and match the names and just let my mind wander. Usually I end up digging into history, political overtones, timeline themes, some characters, a world map, some land, some monsters and usually the beginning of the first chapter(or encounter if its leaning toward a game) before I really feel I have started anything.

But first thing is first... some ideas to drop in my well. I will keep coming back to this page over and over for the entirety of my experience here. This is where it comes out of my brain onto one page to get categorized, filtered, re-invented, trashed, moved, whatever. Those things don't matter at this point. The only thing that goes through my mind when I do this is just to make sure that I am not actually concentrating too hard on any one specific aspect. I also try to make sure my titles aren't too limiting. What I mean by that is that, in particular wikis, everything is organized by the title of your page. Try to maintain a certain amount of consitancy and symetry with the naming structure of your pages and categories (Read about naming structures). For Web 2.0 ease wikia has made "tags" and "categories" one taxonomy (thank god!) which means that we can really get creative with our structuring.

Smoothvega's Ideawell

 * Ore in the land is magical
 * Ore Types: Silverin, Olidense, Roacta, Drobal, Estrilen, Chardrine
 * there is massive political upheaval due to costs of mining
 * Delenark Orenson is a farmer who at some point discovers an ancient mine with pureform crystaline ore
 * World names
 * Godorand, Ayen, Torsha, Maron, Coramar
 * Scopes
 * Time - From beginning of time to present, broken up by event based ages
 * Magic - Highly integrated through (sometimes intelligent) ore.
 * Evolution - Creature evolution is modified in high-density ore locations as a result of magically altered genes. This can lead to some massivly disproportionate strengths and weaknesses.
 * Geological - At least 4 Major land masses
 * Godorand landmasses:
 * Corralind, Kordusk, Jeshaland, Sjemmni