Book Review: Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot
Flatland – characters are two dimensional.
Social Media In Fiction and The Rebirth of Cyberpunk
Alternate economies, cyberpunk and world-building the future.
The Art & Science of World Building: The Tools You Need to Make a Believable World
World building requires art AND science. Nina takes us through a primer.
The Art & Science of World Building: The Tools You Need to Make a Believable World
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.
World-Building off Ancient Platforms
Information from a discussion about the ancient Mayans and ways of using ancient cultures for world-building.
World Building: To Market, To Market
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 something that looks like what everyone else has, so… But as I went to bed and was mulling over everything I needed and this post I needed to write, and an […]
Fantasy Cartography, Part 2
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.
Crossroads: World-building in Westerns and Speculative Fiction
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 ability to transport offers both escapist entertainment and the insight into our own existence that only a skewed perspective can provide. This capacity isn’t unique to speculative fiction. Even the most […]