... or partially in an earlier time, or SF set on another world, it's downright easy. (One of my favorite examples is Janet Kagan's ... I think it comes down to different beliefs about the world, what's important in it, and what place the characters hold in it. For ...
Search again:... really matter. I tend to begin by deciding a lot of the worldbuilding and backstory - knowing where my characters are and what they've ... they can go and what they can do next. Other writers find worldbuilding dull and dry, or dislike being tied down too tightly in that ...
Search again:... when from outside they look as loopy as Pratchett's Discworld (a flat world carried through space on the back of four giant elephants who, in turn, ...
Search again:... and effective tools, and the easiest way to make one's worldbuilding consistent and complex is to use what's already there in real ...
Search again:... book - there were elves, and people from the "real" world sent to an alternate magical world, a quest, a fated romance, a kidnapping, betrayal by a friend, a reformed ...
Search again:... conceived violates some fundamental principle of your worldbuilding, or worse yet, of common sense. Sometimes the chain of logic is ...
Search again:... real-life place names, for a variety of story-related worldbuilding reasons including differences in who's doing the naming of the ...
Search again:... Caroline feeds me tea and the best ginger scones in the world, sympathizes for half an hour, then tells me sternly to go write. And ...
Search again:... was supposed to show that in this particular fantasy world, that event was an ordinary, everyday occurrence. On the other hand, ...
Search again:... why long prologues full of the background history of the world seldom work and are commonly cut by editors - when they pick up a book ...
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