Tag: World-building

Flatland - characters are two dimensional.

Alternate economies, cyberpunk and world-building the future.

World building requires art AND science. Nina takes us through a primer.

World building spices real physical and social facts with the author’s imagination to create a civilization, a political structure, a culture and zeitgeist as backdrop and influence to story. Writers define world-building as the process of constructing an imaginary world, usually associated with a fictional universe.

Information from a discussion about the ancient Mayans and ways of using ancient cultures for world-building.

I was getting all excited last night over the idea of making my next purse. I can work with leather, and I don’t want...

Fantasy cartography is like playing SimCity; first you create and then you take an almost gleeful joy in the destruction before rebuilding from the ashes.

Speculative fiction gives my imagination space to play. Whether it's a strange, fascinating city, an entire alien world, or a different time/reality, the genre's...