• Creating the Fantasy World

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    I subscribe to a wonderful blog call Speculative Faith. Today they featured the writer, Merrie Destefano who spoke on world building. She has some great but also obvious advice.


    So, below is a list of some of the organic, world-building rules that this writer tries to live by:

    1. Set up your world so that it can have a natural evolution. For instance, try changing just one thing within our existing world—like P.D. James did in The Children of Men, where suddenly, no one could have children—then see how, over time, that one change could affect everything else in the world.

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