Authoring

The language is small enough to learn in an afternoon. Deciding what to write down with it takes longer.

These are notes on that second part — the questions that come up once the syntax is no longer the hard bit. None of them is a rule. A universe is written in somebody's voice, and the useful thing about a description is that a person chose what to say.

What they do offer is the reasoning behind a few decisions that come up in nearly every universe, so you can borrow it or argue with it rather than working it out from nothing.

Notes

• State or events — when a fact should be an edge, and when it deserves a name