I’ve mentioned before on this blog that I’m a member of Scribophile.com. I’d like to tell you all about it and how it’s helped me. Nearly a year ago, I was considering getting back into writing, and I fished out some chapters of a couple of novels I’d attempted to start a …
In my worldbuilding series, I’ve created a country, a city and some basic characters. I’ve reached the stage where I’d like to give everything a name. For now, I shall concentrate on the worldbuilding elements affecting the three characters I have in mind. So I want to name the country, the city, …
When I started writing my novel (I’ve currently nearly finished the second draft!) I joined the online writing site Scribophile. Before I joined Scrib, if you’d asked me what editing was, I’d have said that after you’d written your book, you gave it to an editor, and they corrected any mistakes you’d …
Worldbuilding is like flying towards your fantasy world with a large camera in your hand. At each step you zoom in another level. In the last post we considered cities. It’s difficult to progress any further in this exercise without having some idea of individual characters about which you wish to write …
For the next post in my worldbuilding series, I want to think about cities. In the previous post, we considered countries and terrain, so cities are the next logical step to zoom in to. When you are deciding which city to develop, I personally would suggest picking the one where …
In my first post on worldbuilding I discussed deciding the type of fantasy book you want to write and using that to define the nature of your world. The next step is to think about the country or countries in that fantasy world. You may be able to get away with …
Stuck for inspiration? Here’s a few writing prompts to get your muse going: 1. You’re in Starbucks. A superhero stops by to pick up a coffee. You get chatting… 2. Your cat wakes you in the night. He’s brought you a present. Assuming it’s a dead mouse, you turn the …