How do games fit into a novel? A world building blog for writers of scifi, fantasy, romance and historical fiction.
World Building: Games
World Building: Plants
How do plants enhance world building in a novel?
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World Building: I’ll Drink to That
Alcohol – a world building blog for writers of scifi, fantasy, histfic and romance.
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World Building: Hitchhiker bugs
Bugs travel with us.
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World Building: Forests
Can’t see the forest for the trees – or the trees in the forest?
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World Building: Cultural survival
What does it take to ensure a society survives and grows? What makes one region successful, while another struggles? Why do societies fall? Big questions – can they be included in a novel? Jared Diamond in his massive and erudite
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World building: Underground
Underground environments are both common work places for some, a place to explore, or a fragile ecosystem that can kill a human. A perfect place to set a story! In this category I include mining, natural cave systems and geysers.
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World building: Research
Building a new world, or recreating a past one can be quite a lengthy process of research. Imagine, if you will, the ancient wizard pouring over dusty scrolls, the kindly librarian searching out a rare book, or a vat of
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World building: Celebrations
Woo who – lets have a party! Said every human in every culture since the dawn of time. There are more festivals and things to celebrate than there are days in the year, so the human race is definitely one
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World building: Are we there yet?
People have been making up ways to measure and define all the things for a very long time, perhaps longer than we can measure. So if in “real” life people make up stuff that becomes a standard, what shall we
