Questions about Worldbuilding...

You ever find yourself starting a story, and then start getting about a thousand ideas for worldbuilding on that story, to the point where you forget you were actually working on said story?

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[NerfedFalcon]

All the time.

[StrigidaeFan]

All the Arceusdamn time.

[Prince_Staghorn]

You have no idea. I got on this site and wrote one story, next thing i know i've made an entire worldbuilding group dedicated to the universe it's set in, including things that may never come up in any story i write. I mean, can you imagine if i just explained that after the Pliocene, almost all the dinosaur species in Tapiri (basically South America) died out, but a group of notosuchids began filling the niches and eventually became creatures known as Retrosaurs? Unless i decided to devote a bonus chapter to the subject, it would just be clunky and unnecessary exposition to explain that no, the protagonists are NOT running from a scientifically inaccurate dinosaur, but a creature that LOOKS like a scientifically inaccurate dinosaur.

Then again, it's just fun, and also gives background stuff for people who want to set their stories in said universe

[Grtgfbll]

I've had to scratch out 3 or 4 paragraphs when I realized a Link-in-Equestria fic was taking too long to get to the pony. I wound up condensing 2 pages of text to "Hyrule was safe in the hands Zelda and Ganon"... Long story.

[Masterweaver]

See, this is why I write fanfiction. BECAUSE THE WALLS ARE ALREADY THERE.

[KnightMysterio]

4422595 That's the issue, though. I'm getting ideas for worldbuilding on an AU fic I'm writing.

[Masterweaver]

4422619
So you broke down a few walls and are rebuilding them. Totes cool.

[Purple Patch]

Tell me about it.
I'm a history nut so I love the odd backstory or two.

[SarentheStalwart]

I've got a whole binder full of sh*t that's purely world building, for over 5 and their alternates.

[ShadowLDrago]

Yes.

[Krazyfan1]

YES!!
i get wordbuilding ideas for everything!