In my opinion, every worldbuilder should do their own maps. Not only does it allow a worldbuilder a set of geographic references to rely on when trying to figure out what is in relation to where, but it also gives those same references to their audience, allowing them to better visualise the sett...
2021-11-08 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the voting post for November's articles.
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Note: This wasn't going to be a multi-part series, but given the amount of detail I wanted to get into, I figured I probably wouldn't be able to do it justice without a map, so I decided to pick a format which could let me go a lot more in-depth than I would have been able to otherwise.
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2021-10-09 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOver the past parts of this series, we've mostly remained focused on the theoretical and the general aspects of fictional societies: which is to say, I've been discussing the broad outlines of a society, the parts it's made of, and how they roughly fit together. However, while these fundamentals ...
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Individuals are the result of their own decisions, but the decisions they are presented with are determined by the characteristics of the society they live in. Needless to say, the same is true for fictional characters living in fictional societies.
What this means to a creator is that the ...
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2021-08-09 05:30:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Unless your society exists on an island which has never been visited by another society (and these places still exist), it has not developed in a vacuum. Almost all societies have changed not just through the dynamics of their own societal forces, but through the influence, and sometimes the domi...
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Let me paint a picture: the good and just government of the realm has just been overthrown by a tyrant. Immediately, he begins to implement a vicious programme of violent repression. The formerly free press is shut down forcibly. Marginalised groups are made scapegoats for poverty and civil unres...
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In the last section, I talked about how geographical and sociological conditions shape a society. In this part, I'll be doing part of the job of explaining how, not only talking about how those conditions create needs which a society must fulfil, but also how the the way those needs are fulfilled...
2021-06-09 05:41:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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Creating a fictional society is perhaps the most exciting and frustrating part of worldbuilding. The ability to create a whole new culture from scratch is an amazing power, and when done right, it can captivate the imaginations and draw in the interests of people who are willing to commit as much...
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There are many reasons to want to write a series instead of a stand-alone work: maybe the story a creator has in mind is larger than can be encompassed by a single narrative arc or book or film or game. Maybe a creator wants to explore the features and narrative potentials of a single setting wit...
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