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Worldbuilding Checklist - Check out this helpful worldbuilding checklist that you can use to help get started with plotting a story's world.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed in worldbuilding a culture for your story, start with the foundation: the physical environment + cultural values. In this blog, we show you how.
Download This Worksheet (PDF) This worksheet contains 3 pages of questions to help with worldbuilding cities. I’ve always been fascinated by the way cities develop; how they evolve defences, infrastructure, boundaries, and districts. Where they’re built, what they’re built on, why they’re built where they’re built, who they’re built by… All these questions seem ripe…
Worldbuilding is an essential story element to fiction stories; however, building maps and the geography to fantasy worlds can be extremely challenging. This worksheet was created to help students think about important worldbuilding topics, all focused on the geography of their fantasy world, country, or state. You'll find topics such as Major Geographical Features, Major Resources, and How has the geography change over time?, among others.
The following list of questions is meant to aid authors of fantasy fiction who are seeking to create believable imaginary settings for their stories. While many of these questions may be helpful or crucial to certain stories, they will not all apply to every story. It is not necessary for an author to answer all, or even any, of the questions in order to start writing, (or to finish writing, either). The idea is simply to provoke people into thinking about the ways their settings and backgrounds hang together … or don't. If it's useful, use it. If not, don't.
Religion and belief systems can be huge motivators in character design, so writing about them can help your characters seem more three-dimensional. It adds a new element to the driving why behind narrative progression and it's also the perfect opportunity for worldbuilding (especially in fantasy). In this post I'll be discussing how to create and…
What separates one culture from another. It’s more than clothes and language, though those are important for making them look and feel distinct from one another. No, what makes two cultures unique are cultural values. These are the traits that, as a society, are held in highest regard. When speaking with pride about their country, […]
Creative Writing Worksheet – History (PDF) I have another worldbuilding worksheet for you! This one has two pages; the first will prompt you to detail all of the major turning points in your world’s history, and the second will question you closely about how your peoples record, study and interpret history. The nice thing about history is…
How to build fantasy worlds that are intricate and rich.
Find help in worldbuilding, writing, art and gamedev, while learning about Eledris, the fictional fantasy world!
Worldbuilding can become quite overwhelming pretty quickly if you lose yourself in all the aspects of how a world, and the people living in it, work. So before you actually start your worldbuilding process, you should ask yourself a vital question in order to prevent this threat of becoming overwhelmed. This pin tells you what you should consider first. Follow me for more writing advice like this! #writing #writingabook #fantasyworld #worldbuilding #writer #books #fiction #writerscommunity #fyp #writersofinstagram #tips #advice #fantasy #fanfiction
Six key questions explain how to start worldbuilding, beat writers block, and avoid Worldbuilders Disease, whether it's a new or old project.
Writing Worksheet – Geography (PDF) This 4-page worksheet will be most useful to science-fiction and fantasy writers, but even if you’re writing within the confines of “our” world, it’s worth giving geography some thought. Most of history and politics is influenced by people’s need to gather and guard the natural resources that they collect from the earth,…
M. D. Presley teaches us all about the Four Cs of Worldbuilding this month in his feature WORLDBUILDING BY THE NUMBERS
