On Glossaries, etc.

[Beef]

Hey all,

I'm currently compiling a formal glossary for all of my world building/story/tech and whatever, just to keep track of what's what. I'm finding the excercise surprisingly helpful, even though it's all strictly for my own consumption (I don't intend to ever show it to anyone, because it is essentially an enormous infodump.)

I'm starting to wonder: Does anyone else bother with this sort of thing?

 

[Laeraneth]

I have a huge swathe of my scrivener file structure devoted to world, religion, setting, places, cities, people, historical figures, snippets of character backgrounds and connections, future events and past that I need to keep in mind, ideas, potential pitfalls...

So... yes. Most definitely yes!

 

[Tyburn]

I have a load of stuff I keep on file as reference material and am always grabbing images from the web for inspiration. I also wrote an alternative history of the Russian Empire, even though they don't appear at all anywhere in my series, just because I thought it would be a fun exercise to think of what could have happened to the Soviet Union had it not become involved in WWII.

 

[Tecdavid]

I don't just create a glossary for my work; I enjoy it. Not only is it helpful for keeping bits-and-pieces neat and tidy, but I just find it fun to write briefly about all the little doo-dads I've come up with. Like flicking through an album of the things I've created. Just feels satisfying, I suppose.

 

[thaddeus6th]

It's not a glossary, but I do have a document or two about the world I've built, for consistency's sake and so I don't have to try remembering everything.