Building Immersive Settings
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Annotating Your Manuscript for Worldbuilding Consistency
As fantasy worlds grow, so do the intricacies of social hierarchies, cultural expectations, and the rules of magic. However, within this complexity lies a risk: inconsistencies. Suddenly, in Chapter 15, a detail set in Chapter 6 no longer matters. The death of one character in Chapter 9 becomes entirely illogical in Chapter 18. It’s a Continue reading
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Bringing Your Worlds to Life: The Power of Sensory Details
I often tell people that I love to read. However, if we didn’t have the word “reading,” we would have to say, “I stare at ink on paper and have vivid hallucinations for hours on end about made-up places and people.” As silly as that idea sounds, it is our ability to imagine other realities Continue reading
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