{"id":10409,"date":"2019-01-18T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilbertthm90.wordpress.com\/?p=10409"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:16:58","slug":"how-start-worldbuilding-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/2019\/01\/how-start-worldbuilding-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Worldbuilding Guide for Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This ultimate worldbuilding guide is tailored toward helping writers navigate the endlessly complicated process. It’s something I care deeply about, and one of the aspects of writing I like the most. I hope you find useful these worldbuilding tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
What is Worldbuilding?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If you found this by searching for worldbuilding, then you probably already know what it is. Feel free to skip to the next section. But there’s a lot of subscribers to this blog that might not fully understand what I’m referring to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worldbuilding is the art of developing details about a fictional world. It is done, to some extent, in every work of fiction. If the world is completely unlike our own, for example, Middle Earth of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, then it is usually called a “secondary world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Secondary worlds are typical in epic fantasy, and they will mostly be the focus of these posts. But if you write literary fiction, some amount of worldbuilding is still expected of you. You’ll be generating the family history of characters and locations for the events to take place and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why Should I Do It?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
This seems like a lot of work. You might be thinking: why can’t I just plot my story with the Hero’s Journey and write it? You might even be thinking: I’ve written novels and never done this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, it’s true that you can probably scrape by without any formal worldbuilding, but the more worldbuilding you do, the more likely you are to create an interesting, believable, and consistent world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other easy answer is: your readers will think about these things even if you don’t.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s say you create a “chosen one” story, like so many fantasy novels are. This has huge ramifications on your world. Is there a prophecy about it? Where did this prophecy come from? Is the prophecy true? If so, in what sense is there free will? Are there even stakes if the prophecy is true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n