When building a world, one of the first things you will determine is exactly what that world is. It’s the biggest decision you’ll make and may already be determined in advance by your genre or plot. If however, you have a blank canvas, there are various alternatives to consider: Earth/Fictionalised …
Every country needs a political system. Let’s have a think about how you can develop the right system for your country. Who’s in charge? Firstly, you need to ask who is in charge of your country? One person, a few people, or a large group of people? A country with …
In this post in the worldbuilding series I’ll be considering currency. Every society needs some kind of money, trade or barter system in order to function. My current work-in-progress doesn’t feature money as a high priority item for my main characters, but, from time to time, I need to refer to …
In my last post in the worldbuilding series I looked at the creation of magic systems. When I moved on to develop my own specific magic system, I found it lead naturally into the consideration of religion. So, I thought it would be helpful to look at the creation of a …
I’m now working on some short stories based on the country I created in my series on worldbuilding. The series of short stories is going to be called The Lannerain Chronicles. To create short stories, or perhaps novelette/novella length works, I think it will be easiest to focus on one character …
At this stage, I’ve done enough basic worldbuilding to start drafting some story ideas for The Lannerain Chronicles. I will add to the series as the need arises, but for now, here is a summary of the posts in this series to date: Creating a Fantasy World (Introduction) Decide on your …
Today we’re going to have a look at the creation of magic systems. The internet has many in-depth resources on this topic, so my aim here is to keep it simple, outline some basic principles, and apply them to the fictional fantasy world I have been building throughout this series. …
