User blog comment:DetJones/Thinking of making a Conworlding book, some questions first./@comment-26718489-20140628021605

When I get hooked on an idea, I usually write it out as it comes into my head on the main page of the conworld. I then develop it as I think about what the next sentence should be.

I prefer to remain as plausible as possible, and thus, using another country as an example to base my thoughts off of can be helpful in defining what would be realistic and what wouldn't be. I also use the wikipedia pages of some countries to base the layout of my main page on, whilst not copying that page directly, I just find it easier to use the development guidlines of a real, already existing country.

The vast majority of my nations are modern day, though some are within 100 to 300 years of the future. A range of present to about 2500.

When I find an event to be of significance to my creation, then I properly respond using a news service which details the reaction and progression of actions based around such an event. Typically, I prefer that my nations remain significantly separate from their real life counter parts by modifying that location's history, and thus, an event which occurs within my conworld sometimes would not correlate into my own project because of differences in the development and exact state of both the conworld and its real life counterpart.