This Was Not The Side Project I Intended At First

I think I’ve established my bonafides as a map geek.  The Maradaine books all have maps of the city, and detailed blow ups of certain neighborhoods.  I’ve refrained from going Too Much Information on the maps, because I certainly could.  I could show all of Druthal, all the world.  I could also give a floor plan for the Welling family household.

So to my surprise, I was checking through my files and realized the last time I had touched many maps was as far back as 2008.  I’m pretty sure that was three computers and four generations of Photoshop ago.

Immediately I realized that ALL my world-level maps were, for all intents, out of date.  Not to mention, I’ve become a better mapmaker, a better worldbuilder since then.  Plus, it seems some of my files have been lost.  The hi-res work version of the detailed map of Druth is not anywhere on my computer.  I have a lower resolution one where you cannot make out the river and city names.  Plus I didn’t keep things in separate layers on Photoshop, which was a complete rookie mistake.

I realized I had to redo the Whole World Map.  And not only that, re-do it from the ground up.  Because I know now how to do it even better.

The funny thing is, this all came about because I’m on a mini-writing retreat to get the draft of Imposters of Aventil done. (Yes, I am two books ahead of you all in terms of the release schedule, and that’s how it should stay, hopefully).  The draft is coming along swimmingly, though it is a draft, and that means plenty more work to do before it’s turned in to my editor.  But since I was doing that work, I decided, “Hey, I shouldn’t spend too much time on this week’s blog.  I should just be all, ‘Hey, busy retreat week!  Here’s a map!'”

Then that happened. And I got very distracted by it.

However, that doesn’t change the fact that the draft of Imposters is going swimmingly.  In the mean time, here’s a map, in the process of being re-built.

Full Map New Revised 2016

2 comments

    1. This is just the first step. Rebuilding from the ground up, down to the geography.

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