fantasy

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

In previous parts of the Worldbuilding 101 series we’ve talked about how to start and the kinds of things that you need to know. But how much do you need to know? When you’re building a world for your novel, it’s easy to get lost in the mires of detail. What measures of weight do

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

Worldbuilding is one of the most fun, and potentially most frustrating, parts of writing a novel. This is especially true if you’re writing fantasy or science fiction. On the one hand there’s so much freedom! You can do anything you like! On the other… sometimes it feels like there’s too much freedom. If you can