How does the law affect characters in a novel?
World Building: Law
World Building: Politics
How does politics fit into world building?
World Building: Reader Query
World building – what new topics would be of interest?
World Building: Death
The role of Death in the world of histfic, scifi, fantasy and romance novels.
World Building: Fruit
Food in fiction has been the favourite part for readers. Who can forget the dreams of feasting with Elves, second breakfasting with hobbits, or joining the Famous Five on a picnic with ginger beer, gloriously ripe plums and slabs of
World Building: Forests
Can’t see the forest for the trees – or the trees in the forest?
World building: Scale
The scale of a world is an interesting facet to explore. Is the world of the book the normal everyday or does it delve into a microcosm, or travel across the universe? Variations on scale can create and define a
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.
World building: Downtime
Summer holidays last forever, especially if you are a child – or indeed a parent. Weeks and weeks of sun drenched days with no planned activities. Sounds marvelous? But how are these to read about? Endless descriptions of sunsets or
Worldbuilding: Touch what?
If a smell can trigger a memory, then a touch can trigger an immediate reaction. Our vocabulary is rich in words that are repellent merely from their association with touch – moist slithers to mind. But the opposite is true