Someone else recommended this book and I'm sorry I've forgotten who that is so I can't give them credit. World-building by Stephen Lee Gillett...
I love building worlds. I do it for fun with no intention of writing stories in them, but I would like my worlds to see the light of day, have...
http://www.springhole.net/writing/index.html It's like if TVTropes were aimed specifically at writers: I've lost countless hours of my life...
I'm having some trouble introducing lore naturally in dialogue. Context : A newly discovered exoplanet is being terraformed. During the...
Hi everyone! I'm new here, but I have a question. A tiny problem that is sort of keeping me from writing right now. Hope someone will help :) I'm...
Am currently writing a steampunk story involving people with mechanical limbs whom are seen as lesser in society. However I am having trouble...
When we think about epic fantasy, be it adult or YA, our mind is automatically flooded with a medieval setting. I don't exactly have anything...
I'm playing with ideas for a magical world in which everyone is born with a fixed (typically very long by our terms) life expectancy that they are...
Hello, I've been writing around two or three different seperate stories, which have their own worlds that I'm building up. (Two almost from...
So, I'm 70'000 words into my first novel-length fantasy and I realise I need to change where some of the countries/realms etc are on my map, and...
So as I develop my current novel, I find myself building off the Seelie and Unseelie courts of the fae world. Currently what I'm trying to do is...
As I am world-building in my fantasy I am naming my countries etc. The place my protagonists comes from has been ruled by women for a few...
This may or may not end up as a novel, and I just want my word to be realistic. Instead of people, the world is filled with primarily centaurs. A...
Something that has always bugged me about alternative history worlds is not the premise, or the events that might happen where the timeline splits...
Hi all first time poster. Ive written short stories and done creative writing all my life. But ive always remembered a quote, "Write what you'd...
Anyhoo, in my book, the focus is on a race (or rather collective of races) known as the Funebrarans (this will likely be changed to something far...
I'm I wanted to gain more input on an idea I have been working on. I am trying to build a community to develop a world with. If you would like...
Advice Needed: My Peculiar Struggle With Fiction Writing Hello all! I am new to the forum as of about 3 minutes prior to typing these...
My first topic! Let's see how it'll go down... (Oh, and if it's in the wrong place, feel free to move it. In fact, I think it is in the wrong...
Hi folks, I've begun to get my head around a novel length plot, set in a fantasy world (see my world building/magic thread). Currently it...
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