Creating and Writing About My Lego Universe

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Ever since I was about five, I've added on to my Harry Potter - inspired Lego world, only recently realizing just how intricate the entire thing is.

Over the past few months, I've added characters, elaborate back stories, and I've begun to write story focusing on one of my characters and his first year at Hogwarts, which will eventually include a huge battle where a lot of people will die. I've revamped my characters and their back stories to include interesting plots (to me, at least) and character development. For example, I randomly killed a character when I was ten, but I decided to give her death more purpose by letting it become the inciting event for her younger sister's massive character development.

I've spent a lot of time talking to myself about my characters, and could go on for hours telling someone else if anyone listened.

I've done the same thing. Not with legos or harry potter, but with my own ideas. I have a few universes I've built. The biggest one is Sci-Fi set about a million years in the future in the milky way galaxy. Another set modern day but in an alternate universe where there are superheroes and space travel already made possible. I have a few others.

I'm not even good at writing it all down beyond outline or notes. But I work at it to put it into a readable story format.

A friend, who is an English major, found out about the superhero one. He loves the superheroes genre/element and has written a few stories himself. He just asked me to tell him about it. I dumped the universe in his lap practically and after more than an hour, had gone through the rules, sources of inspiration, characters and setting among other things. He was really impressed that I had thought it out that much and encouraged me to write it out. I started, but I ended up stopping for a while, and now I've picked up another story to work on.

I've been told repeatedly and seen others say that aspies are not creative. Which is a load of BS. I may be a different type of creative but I still am. I know other aspies who are also, but not neccessarily with writing.

Don't ever throw this away. Even if you stop tomorrow and never return to it. Don't lose it. Hold on to it. This is your creation. Your work of art.

I thought I was alone in this, but it's good to know that I'm not.

I've got an entire Google Docs file devoted to the universe.

It's a lot of fun, isn't it?

Yeah. It is fun.

I keep all of mine on my laptop and back it up to a thumbdrive and an external hard drive. After high school, I would buy notebooks and fill them with ideas for various things or work on stuff. Then I got my laptop and went digital. I have the box of the notebooks somewhere. I think in the bottom of my bedroom closet. I did use google docs for working on one of my Battletech campaigns. It was nice being able to going between several computers I had to use at the time depending on where I was.

On my blog, which is linked to in my signature. I have a page on it dedicated to my writing and the status of every story. Also I post a lot on the status of what I'm working on currently.

I just spent most of my day creating all the other students and making rosters for the Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff Houses (I did Gryffindor's months ago). Now I've created and listed all 140 Hogwarts students.