Making a Fictional Calendar for You Science Fiction World #SciFiSunday
When J.R.R. Tolkien created Middle Earth, he started with language. The rigor, originality, and poetry involved in creating a language may have contributed to the profound feeling of presence that the Lord of the Rings story brings for many people. But there are a lot of ways in to world building. Calendars, for instance. If you’re working with an alien world, and that world has two suns, or a large or small orbit, or an particularly elliptical path around its sun, then our Earth calendar just won’t work. In that case, your world building process may begin with making a calendar. Here’s more from Quark and Dagger:
First, it is possible to have a Tatooine type planet that orbits two suns. And it’s a really cool idea. The question is, how do you invent calendar system based on the two stars?
Remember to think logically, and try creating from a bottom-up perspective rather than top-down. That is to say, think about the people residing on the planet and where on the planet they reside. Will seasons affect them? Will the world only have a single season? How is the rotation around the two suns going to impact seasons? Are there even months at all or just a number of days in a revolution?
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