I just wanted to add my thanks. this covered a lot of the initial questions that I had.
Where I am confused is on the imaginary palaces.
I play games like Minecraft and GTA:San Andreas which contains many locations, I could also look for other locations.
But I don’t undestand how yours works, do you like choose a house in a game and then let’s say memorize a poem there? If so wouldn’t it not be organized in your list of memorized poetry?
Then you talked about a connection of all your palaces, like the staircase leading to the main castle and a gate or door linking to various rooms (like in Sherlock Holmes series), can you give a detailed explanation on this room organization and linking?
Then on core imaginary palace build, do you create rooms from scratch then fill it out? If so, how long does it take to get a fully solid room, how big and how many loci?