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A Concept Composer (n.) is someone who explores the form of an idea. They wade between exploring and documenting. Concepting into the unknown, and making sense of new ideas.

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Concepting Periodical
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Wondering if we could not use language to describe worlds. Cause worlds don’t feel like they can be bottled up into a succinct narrative. They’re expansive environments. You need a whole book to paint a world.

So instead of trying to use words to describe materials that make up a world, we would use the textures that make up the materials. Sounds, sights, smells, feels, tastes. They can still have a name that’s a pointer to it all, like “Earth”.

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Sounds: Music, Tools in use, Animals, Weather

Sights: Objects in a certain quantity, Habiliment, Lighting

Smells: Seasons and Activities may change aromas

Feels: What things are we touching and why

Tastes: Cuisine (also taste is defined by smells too right?)

Are worldbuilders fictional phenomenologists?

Now curious about the difference between cultures and worlds. My flight’s taking off now. Into the clouds I go. Oh! Last thing — what may be truly universal are the base metaphors of up and down (from gravity). E.g. the Ground and the Sky.

How to define a world
What do Concepts and World Concepts have in common?
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Concepts are one perspective on an idea
Concepts are one perspective on an idea
Two types of concepts: A concept and a world concept
Two types of concepts: A concept and a …
Welcome to the Careering Fairgrounds
Welcome to the Careering Fairgrounds

You could compose a concept for a whole world or compose concepts that exist in a world, which means that concepts can contain other concepts.

its concepts all the way down
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