Category: Volume 1

A Question of Depth A single, detailed world provides a richer, more diverse, immersive experience for an audience, but we must remember that they want a story, even in gaming. World building is always subservient to this, and yet when Read More …

How to Decide Consider how passionate you are about world building. If you’re an author, your primary goal is telling stories. Will you be satisfied with showing your originality in the story more than the setting? Is there a risk Read More …

One Vs. Many Since world building takes time, we should consider how many worlds we might build over the course of our career and whether it makes sense to build a world per story (twenty worlds for twenty stories), just Read More …

Some people do it for fun, some do it for their stories, and some might do it from a sense of obligation (it’s expected in their genre), but world building is always voluntary. We can easily craft a story using Read More …

Templates and Newsletter Effective world building requires having written down details about the created world. To help you organize and jumpstart your efforts, each volume in this series includes templates in the appendices. This volume includes seven: gods, species, monsters, Read More …

What follows is a brief summary of what’s included in each chapter in volume one, Creating Life. Chapter 1—Why Build a World? While world building is expected in many genres of fantasy and SF, we must decide how many worlds Read More …