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Cosmology, Mythology, Society, Magic, Geography, Afterlife, Equipment, Language, Trade, Biological interaction, Phonology, Word order, Geographical features,...

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…

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.

Worldbuilding Checklist - Check out this helpful worldbuilding checklist that you can use to help get started with plotting a story's world.

In my worldbuilding series, I’ve created a country, a city and some basic characters. I’ve reached the stage where I’d like to give everything a name. For now, I shall concentrate on the worldbuilding elements affecting the three characters I have in mind. So I want to name the country, the city, …

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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…

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,…

Après avoir posé les bases de votre univers avec sa géographie, sa technologie et son économie, il est temps de se pencher sur son organisation politique. Pour survivre et prospérer, une communauté doit forcément mettre en place un système d'organisation politique, ne serait-ce que pour assurer l'ordre et pour se défendre des attaques extérieures. Bien…

Culture erasure and misrepresentation is no laughing matter.

Kelsey Graywill is raising funds for Make 100: The Worldbuilding Starter Pack on Kickstarter! Turn your imagination into reality with this kit for crafting fictional worlds.

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.

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.