Rowan Q. Lorne

Building the World beneath the story

Worldbuilding profoundly influences character interactions and story dynamics, providing depth and authenticity, as the author navigates the complexities through extensive notes and concepts.

Writing The Quiet Proximity

When first I began writing The Quiet Proximity, it didn’t even have a name, and I certainly did not realise I was building a world completely governed by distance. I thought I was writing about routines, about the small rituals that hold our lives together. However, the more I explored that idea, the more I…

The Quiet Proximity Is Out in the World

Today, something I’ve been working toward for a long time finally became real—The Quiet Proximity is officially published. This book began as a quiet idea, a fragment of a world shaped by distance and routine. It grew slowly, through documents, contradictions, and the strange calm of the Doctrine. Seeing it now as a finished novel—something…