Mar 30, 2015
Today's Topic - Types of Governments in Fantasy Worldbuilding
- Power of the state
- Anarchy
- True democracy
- consent of the governed
- Limited Monarchy
- Authoritarian
- How do rulers come to power
- Birth
- Personal traits
- Appointed by divine source
- Appointed by previous leader
- Coup
- Random selection
- Election
- How is the transitions of power handed
- Peaceful
- Violent
- War
- How are rights earned
- Natural Rights
- Rights granted by rulers
- Nepotism
- Forced by the mob
- Reward
- Who owns what?
- Individuals own property
- State owns property
- Is the stated tied to a religion
- What do you call your state? List of common government types
- Special thanks to Nick
Mar 28, 2015
Interview: Anna Questerly
Bookseller and bibliophile turned author, Anna Questerly writes medieval fiction and fairy tales for smart kids and young hearts. For adults, she creates Utopian fantasy as A.J. Questerly
- Introduction
- Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
- Tell us about your latest work.
- How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
- When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
- Biggest achievement to date?
- What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
- Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer
Gauntlet round
- What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
- Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
- What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
- What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
- What tool(s) could you not work without?
- What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
- If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)
Mar 27, 2015
Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Religions and Fantasy States
- Create folder for your Fantasy religion in your Scrivener
worldbuilding bible.
- Add a religions document
- Religion links to track
- What percentage of the population follows this religion
- When did the religion first appear.
- Does the state have influence over the religion
- Is the religion approved by the state
- If not what happens if you get caught engaging in worship.
- Are there any parts of the religion that are not the same in this country
- This could change overtime
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Mar 25, 2015
Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Cultural and Racial Links in your Fantasy State
- Create folder for your Fantasy country in your Scrivener
- Add a Cultural and a Racial links document
- Cultural links to track
- When culture first joins the state.
- Culture disappears from the state
- What percentage of the population belongs to the state
- Racial links
- All races should come from the cultural links
- What percentage of the population in the fantasy country
- This could change overtime
Mar 23, 2015
Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Trap: Paralysis by Analysis
- Worldbuilding helps create framework for story
- When it is happening?
- When you stop writing first draft.
- When you remake the world every time you start a revision
- When you avoid writing or storytelling because you have to work on the world
- Telling the stories is the point
- What is okay?
- If you pause to record newly minted words in a language
- Record new unexpected world elements
- You are worldbuilding as education and you are using stories to explore your world
- Tips
- New world elements folder in your Scrivener
- "GO GO GO" note
- record what you need for story.
- New world elements folder in your Scrivener
Mar 21, 2015
Interview: Aaron Wood
Please listen to learn more about Aaron Wood. A geek at heart and artist that has created some wonderful book covers and propaganda.
- Introduction
- Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
- Tell us about your latest work.
- How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
- When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
- Biggest achievement to date?
- What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
- Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer
Gauntlet round
- What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
- Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
- What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
- What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
- What tool(s) could you not work without?
- What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
- If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)
Mar 20, 2015
Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Fantasy State History
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- Important Things remembered
- Truth according to the culture
- based on norms
- Wars
- Turmoil
- Major Expansions
- War or land
- Trade
- Science
- Magic
- Exploration
- Stagnant periods
- Major new discovers
- New Power
- new type of geography
- new item in the night sky
Mar 18, 2015
Today's Topic - The Rise and Fall of a Fantasy State
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- When did it become a state
- How did the state form
- Golden Age(s)
- State the collapse
- What caused the end of the state
- Was it really the end?
- Does it reemerge
Mar 16, 2015
Today's Topic - Fantasy States Revisited
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- History
- Rise And Fall
- Links to Cultures and Races
- Tolerance
- Types of governments
- Taxes
- The Arts
- Norms
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Mar 14, 2015
Interview: Bill Treadwell
Please listen to learn more about Bill Treadwell, the chief worldbuilder for Caladria
- Introduction
- Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
- Tell us about your latest work.
- How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
- When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
- Biggest achievement to date?
- What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
- Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer
Gauntlet round
- What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
- Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
- What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
- What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
- What tool(s) could you not work without?
- What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
- If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)
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The Tease
Fantasy States Revisited
Mar 13, 2015
Today's Topic - Fantasy Racial Appearances
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- Visual Appearance
- Common skin colors
- Common Eye color
- Height and Weight
- Hair
- Keep in mind
- Eyes
- Smell
- Sound
- Taste
- Feel
Mar 11, 2015
Today's Topic - Fantasy Racial Traits
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- Physical
- Mental
- Social
- Vocational
- Allies/Enemies
Mar 9, 2015
Today's Topic - Fantasy Culture Arts, Dress, And Architecture
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- Specific until Incorporated into a state. The
- Symbology
- Geography
- Materials for clothing
- Materials for Building
- Types of clothing
- Materials
- Colors
- Clasp
- Accessories
- Architecture
- Inspiration
- Important Structures
- Type of materials
- Arts
- Based on materials
- Stone
- Wood and weeds
- Mud
- Metals
- Pigments and Paints
- Common goods
- The Mouth
- Based on materials
Mar 7, 2015
Interview: Dawn Metcalf
Please listen to learn more about Dawn Metcalf, the Twixt, mutant lemmings, breaking stuff and much much more. Listen for the special bonus discussion about a zombie mouse. Do not forget to preorder Insidious (The Twixt)
- Introduction
- Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
- Tell us about your latest work.
- How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
- When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
- Biggest achievement to date?
- What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
- Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer
Gauntlet round
- What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
- Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
- What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
- What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
- What tool(s) could you not work without?
- What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
- If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)
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- Website
- Goodreads
- Ello
- About Me
- Amazon Author Page with the links to her books
Start the Twixt series today and buy Indelible, and preorder a copy of book 3 in the Twixt Insidious
Also check out
SCBWI (Society for Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators): scbwi.org
SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America): sfwa.org
Mar 6, 2015
Today's Topic - Racial Makeup of your Culture
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- What Races are part of the culture
- Probable start with one culture
- Migrations of tribes early on will cause the makeup of race to change
- Merging of groups into new culture
- One of the races adapted the other races culture
- What is the status of the minor race
- What happens when the races have babies
Mar 4, 2015
Today's Topic - Fantasy Cultural Traits
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- Racial before Cultural
- Physical
- Mental
- Social
- Vocational
- Allies/Enemies
Mar 2, 2015
Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Cultural Evolution
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- Separation
- Religious
- Physical
- Social
- Mass immigration
- Growth
- New Contact
- Taking land from other culture
- Magical or Technological growth
- Decline
- Subjugation
- Relocation
- Genocide
- Major Power
- Hand of god
- Drought
- Famine
- major disasters
- Disease
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