Adventures in Worldbuilding: Early Mapping My World (or, Fun with Generators)
I’ve been playing around with a lot of different mapping software lately, in part because the epic fantasy series I’m working on has need of a map and I haven’t a clue what to do. I’ve wandered around through all of the various programs for creating maps and the best one I’ve found that takes […]
Adventures in Worldbuilding: Questions I ask myself (because I’m mental)…
1) How the heck do I write a mystery story involving a framing of a drug dealer in a fantasy world? 2) Is it possible to have a continent that spirals out from a central point with three arms (kind of like a galaxy), or is that just fantasy nonsense? Something like this: 3) How […]
Adventures in Worldbuilding: How to Ruin it All…
If you’re going to create a science fiction world, you cannot snatch up a random ancient culture and toss it into a universe in which interstellar travel is relatively widespread, servant robots are efficient and plentiful, and so on. If you want something like slavery to exist in such a world, you have to have […]
Adventures in Worldbuilding: A Question About Naming
Random question for you writerly types: I’m currently working on a fantasy world, as I said a few days ago. The world is coming together well enough. Figured out the relationship between geography and climate (though not orbit and climate, sadly, which I cannot seem to find useful information for easily calculating). My problem now […]
Adventures in Worldbuilding: Genealogical Obsessions
For those that don’t know (which might be almost all of you), I have jokingly said that I am working on a 25-novel (1,000-page per book) epic fantasy series. In truth, said series will likely be 4 or 5 books, but that depends on how many subplots I decide to include. Lately, I’ve been trying […]