How to Build a Fantasy World: Realistic and Immersive Worldbuilding
How to Work with Time in a Fantasy World
Time is probably not what you think about when it comes to designing your fantasy world. However, time determines a whole lot in the world and it’s something worth thinking about. How do we measure time? This was something that hadn’t occurred to me when I set out to...
Food in Fantasy: Adding Flavour to Fantasy Worldbuilding
During this global pandemic, the availability of food has been on my mind a lot. Among many other things of course, but food is often on my mind anyway. With panic buying (I know half of you aren’t even using that flour to make bread so put it back), disruptions in...
Top Fantasy Worldbuilding Mistakes To Avoid
If you’re new to worldbuilding or are struggling with the massive task of building an entire world from scratch, it can be an overwhelming process. It's easy to make some common mistakes while worldbuilding. So, this post will highlight which ones I see most often so...
What We Can Take From Travel Inspiration When Writing Fantasy
So, your first question may be – what the hell has travelling in this world got to do with the fantasy world I’m building from scratch? Can you really use travel inspiration when writing when your novel is set in a world that doesn't really exist? Well, I firmly...
Society and Governments in Fantasy Worlds
If you are building an entire world from scratch for your fantasy novel(s), then there are lots of big-picture things to think about. One of those things is the overall society structure and types of governments in your fantasy world. The chances are that there will...
Top Tropes in Fantasy to Avoid If You Want a Unique Story
Tropes appear in all genres of course. We couldn’t get to the year 2020 without a few things getting repeated over the years. Tropes in fantasy and cliches aren’t necessarily a bad thing in themselves. Things are repeated and become cliche because a lot of people tend...
A Review of The Witcher: Is It Worth Watching?
Like many people over the festive period, I binge-watched The Witcher. It wasn’t hard. There was a surprisingly small number of episodes and I had some time on my hands. So today, I wanted to put together a little review of The Witcher to share my thoughts on the...
Why Celebrate? How to Use Religious Holidays in Your Fantasy Novel
With the festive season underway, I’ve decided to write a post about religious holidays in fantasy and what place they have in your world and novel. If you’re building a world from scratch, it only makes sense to make up some kind of holiday period. Holidays or...
How to Build History in Your Fantasy World
If you want a rich and big fantasy world you have to think of everything. One key thing you should be building is the history of your world. However, when you start to build history in your fantasy world, you'll quickly realise how tricky it is. Where do you even...
What Does Your Fantasy World Smell Like? Writing the Senses
This post is all about your nose. Might seem like a weird focus of fantasy world building, but I’m all about that detail. As fantasy world builders we spend so much time describing the weird and wonderful places we’ve created, from palaces to castles, to taverns to...
Should You Use Multi POV in Your Fantasy Novel?
Multi-POV, or multiple point of view storytelling has been around for a long time and a lot of people either love it or hate it. It’s been particularly popular since A Song of Ice and Fire and it seems pretty common in the fantasy genre as a whole. But should you go...
How Big Should Your Fantasy World Be?
What is one thing a lot of epic fantasy novels have? Enormous worlds that take years or even decades to build. I love fantasy world-building and big worlds with endless details. I really appreciate the work people go to, to bring these make-believe places to life....