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Saturday Setups – Global Mapping: Terrain Features Pt. 2

Ariel Paiement — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:42:19 +0000

Introduction As a quick announcement, the worldbuilding posts will be moving to Saturdays to be a part of the blog section Saturday Setup, which will deal with different aspects of setting up your story world. The posts will, for now, be up every other week, just as they have been so far. With that out…… Continue reading Saturday Setups – Global Mapping: Terrain Features Pt. 2

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Saturday Setups – GLobal Mapping: Terrain Features Pt. 1

Ariel Paiement — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:41:33 +0000

Introduction to Terrains Hey, everyone! I'm back this week with a post on world-building. Today's post is the first to delve into the global side of mapping, and we're looking at terrain considerations first. Terrain affects a lot of your world-building. After all, if your characters are living in a desert, their lifestyle will be…… Continue reading Saturday Setups – GLobal Mapping: Terrain Features Pt. 1

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Saturday Setup: Creatures – Creating Your Own

Ariel Paiement — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Introduction Any discussion of creatures and fantasy would be totally remiss if I didn't cover creating your own creatures. After all, while we've got a plethora of well-established fantasy creatures, creating your own is one really fun way to put a unique spin on your world, and plenty of authors do it. There's a variety…… Continue reading Saturday Setup: Creatures – Creating Your Own

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Thursday Technicalities: World Building Tools – Weaving Together Plot and World

Ariel Paiement — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Introduction This seemed like a fitting place to begin a new series on Thursday Technicalities since we talk about world building tools on Saturday Setups and since I was just discussing where I learned most of what I know in my newsletter this week. So, yes, we're going to talk about more world building tools,…… Continue reading Thursday Technicalities: World Building Tools – Weaving Together Plot and World

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Saturday Setup – Creatures: The Usual Suspects

Ariel Paiement — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 13:52:00 +0000

Introduction This week, we're moving from language creation to talking about fantasy creatures. Today, we're just going to go over some of the typical fantasy creatures and what you ought to be considering for them. Mainly, this week's post is going to be focusing on bigger creatures like dragons and sea monsters. It won't be…… Continue reading Saturday Setup – Creatures: The Usual Suspects

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Saturday Setups – Factors to Consider

Ariel Paiement — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:00:51 +0000

Introduction Last time, we talked about languages and developing them, but this week, we're going to briefly go over some factors to consider. Building languages is complex, so it's important to break it down and go part by part. How far you go with it obviously depends, as we said last time, on what you…… Continue reading Saturday Setups – Factors to Consider

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Saturday Setup: Building Societies – Location Factors

Ariel Paiement — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 09:00:15 +0000

Introduction We're finished with the mapping section of the world-building discussion, so now we're going to look at building societies and the factors that go into that! The mapping you did in the previous sections will come into play here, so if you haven't read those articles yet, you'll want to do so and come…… Continue reading Saturday Setup: Building Societies – Location Factors

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Saturday Setup: Local Mapping – City Layouts

Ariel Paiement — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:00:26 +0000

We're finally to the local mapping! I know this is all a lot of groundwork and information, but I promise it does help to think about these things. But there's only one more post on mapping before we turn our attention to other aspects of world-building and setting up the story elements. So, let's dive…… Continue reading Saturday Setup: Local Mapping – City Layouts

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Bane of Ashkarith Blog Tour – The System of Deities

Ariel Paiement — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:00:52 +0000

I know this has been a subject of particular interest for several Christian authors who are friends of mine. The biggest question has been, how do you handle God and deities in your books since you're a Christian? That's then followed up with where I draw lines with it since I am a Christian. So,…… Continue reading Bane of Ashkarith Blog Tour – The System of Deities

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Saturday Setup: Global Mapping – Climate

Ariel Paiement — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 09:00:20 +0000

Introduction This week marks the last post about global mapping. We're going to take a look at climate and how that affects your map. This'll be a shorter discussion because you've already done the majority of the work. At this point, you're just going to spend a little time thinking about the climate involved in…… Continue reading Saturday Setup: Global Mapping – Climate

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