When it comes to worldbuilding, especially fantasy worldbuilding, constructing a language is the sort of thing you sometimes feel you ought to do, especially since Tolkien set the standard by […]
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Worldbuilding: Aliens and Environments
Now I’m working on Banshee, a space-opera novel that, on a fundamental level, is about putting a human being on a ship with a whole lot of different aliens and […]
Read moreWorldbuilding/Perils of the Writer: One-Story Worlds vs. Many-Story Worlds
There are pretty much two ways a sf/fantasy writer can go about writing and worldbuilding: come up with a story, and build a world for it to be in; or […]
Read moreWorldbuilding And Overdecription
So, when I talked earlier this week about the perils of overdescribing, of course some of the chatter I heard came back to worldbuilding. Specifically about walking that balance between […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: History and Perspective
History is an integral part of worldbuilding. Now, that doesn’t mean you have to hash out 10,000 years of Everything That Happened to be able to write your story… and […]
Read moreFantasy Worldbuilding Tour: Ch’omikTaa
It’s been a bit since I’ve done one of my worldbuilding tour posts: now that the Hugos are voted on, it seems like a good time to return to it. […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Marriage and Other Rituals of Love and Joining
Today is my anniversary (13th!), so it seems appropriate to talk about the worldbuilding aspects of marriage and other rituals of joining. Marriage customs are rarely the center of any […]
Read moreThe Fantasy Worldbuilder’s Bibliography
Over at my Book Country interview, I talk a bit about the research behind worldbuilding, and the books I recommend. I did only give a few, I didn’t want to […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Constructed languages and how we think
I’m not much one of one for doing the Constructed Languages work. That may seem funny, given how much of a worldbuilding purist and completist I otherwise am, but while […]
Read moreFantasy Worldbuilding: Tour continues to Fuerga
As we continue to go around the continent, past the Kieran Empire to the east: Fuerga. Now we’re also out of the Empire’s direct influence on culture.— “The three biggest […]
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