worldbuilding 101

Over this course, you’ll have planned out how much detail and worldbuilding you need to know in order to write your novel. In this last part, let’s look at how much you need to put in the novel, specifically how much detail you need to go into. The frantic mining of the oceans in the […]

One way to get on top of all this is to make a novel (or series) bible. This comes from screenwriting, where a show would have a series bible to make sure that all of the different people working on the show were working on the same thing. There’s probably just you working on your

Sometimes when you’re planning your novel, you can have all the facts and figures about your world but it just feels clinical. Like a textbook rather than something on which to build a story. Feeling like this can make it hard to make the leap from planning to starting to write. All those details can

Now that we’ve gone over some basic thoughts about worldbuilding, let’s dig deeper and do a couple of exercises. Last time we talked about just how many different things there are to think about when you’re building a world. It can be overwhelming. If you can do anything, how do you choose what to do?