About this series
Want to create a fantasy landscape that feels real and immersive?
Need help drafting a map that enriches the experience of your world?
How to Map Your World breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will show you how to map out an engaging world full of stories and adventure.
This workbook will help you to:
- Lay out your world in a way that complements your story
- Use hints and plot hooks in your map to entice your readers
- Find surprise stories and inspiration in your landscape
- Draw an attractive world map that reinforces your worldbuilding
Work your way through the creation of a map that hooks and intrigues your readers, leading them deep into the world of your story. Learn simple methods for drawing landscape details from mountains to coastlines, and how to put them together in a finished world map.
Get How to Map Your World today, and become the cartographer of your own world.
Available as both an ebook Guidebook and a paperback Workbook with space for answering each prompt.
Titles in the series (6)
- 30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds: Author Guides, #1
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Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable chunks. By following 30 creative prompts, this book will guide you from idea, to full world. This workbook will help you to: Break the epic task of worldbuilding into easy steps Build a full and complete world with prompts you may not have thought of Tie your worldbuilding into your story to increase tension and conflict Bring your worldbuilding back to your characters to get your readers hooked By completing just one prompt each day, you can have a fully created fantasy world in a month. You will also have an invaluable book of worldbuilding notes to keep beside you as you write. Get 30 Days of Worldbuilding today, and stop getting lost in your world. This new edition is packed with more comprehensive prompts, more ideas, tips, and inspiration, as well as specific questions to answer.
- How to Destroy the World: An Author's Guide to Writing Dystopia and Post-Apocalypse: Author Guides, #2
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Want to write dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction, but don't know where to start? Need help worldbuilding the future? Not sure if you're evil enough? How to Destroy the World breaks the genres down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will guide you from your initial idea, to your bleak, brutal future. This workbook will help you to: Create a believable and immersive vision of the future Hit the genre markers your readers will be looking for Use worldbuilding to increase tension and conflict in your story Create exciting character arcs to get your readers hooked Work your way through prompts designed to build your knowledge and confidence of these growing genres. Learn how to tear your world apart, and how to write characters capable of rebuilding it. Get How to Destroy the World today, and start rewriting the future.
- From Sanctity to Sorcery: An Author’s Guide to Building Belief Structures and Magic Systems: Author Guides, #3
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Want to create a magic system for your world, but don't know where to start? Need help building religions and belief structures that feel real? From Sanctity to Sorcery breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will guide you from side-show trickster to all-powerful sorcerer. This workbook will help you to: Create a magic system your readers can truly believe in Build belief structures that feel ancient and organic Use magic and religion to raise the stakes and increase tension Create an immersive experience for your readers with powerful worldbuilding Work your way through prompts designed to fully integrate beliefs and magic into your worldbuilding. Learn how to create wizardry and wonder to raise your characters up, or to crush them down. Get From Sanctity to Sorcery today, and become a master of magic and marvel. Available as both an ebook Guidebook and a paperback Workbook with space for answering each prompt.
- How to Create History: An Author’s Guide to Creating Histories, Myths, and Monsters: Author Guides, #4
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Want to create a rich history for your world, but don't know where to start? Need help creating a past that impacts on your characters and their stories? How to Create History breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will guide you from your present world, back through its deep history. This workbook will help you to: Create a historic timeline of important events Tie your world's history into its present to impact the lives of your characters Use historic events to create a world that feels attached and connected to the past Create ideologies and beliefs that raise the stakes and cause conflict Work your way through prompts designed to fully integrate your world's history into the story you're writing. Learn how to create superstitions, beliefs, and monsters that can propel your characters forward, or stop them in their tracks. Get How to Create History today, and take control of the past.
- How to Build a Culture: An Author’s Guide to Building Rich and Diverse Cultures: Author Guides, #5
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Want to create a rich culture for your world, but don't know where to start? Need help building unique and diverse societies that feel organic? How to Build a Culture breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will elevate your worldbuilding from flat and formulaic to inventive and authentic. This workbook will help you to: Build societies that feel ingrained and consistent Create a culture that deeply impacts your characters and story Use your world's culture to raise the stakes and increase tension Create an immersive experience for your readers with powerful worldbuilding Work your way through prompts designed to fully integrate a wide range of cultural elements into your worldbuilding. Learn how to create social structures to keep your characters in line, or to push them to rebel. Get How to Build a Culture today, and become a commander of community and culture.
- How to Map Your World: An Author's Guide to Mapping Fictional Worlds: Author Guides, #6
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Want to create a fantasy landscape that feels real and immersive? Need help drafting a map that enriches the experience of your world? How to Map Your World breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will show you how to map out an engaging world full of stories and adventure. This workbook will help you to: Lay out your world in a way that complements your story Use hints and plot hooks in your map to entice your readers Find surprise stories and inspiration in your landscape Draw an attractive world map that reinforces your worldbuilding Work your way through the creation of a map that hooks and intrigues your readers, leading them deep into the world of your story. Learn simple methods for drawing landscape details from mountains to coastlines, and how to put them together in a finished world map. Get How to Map Your World today, and become the cartographer of your own world. Available as both an ebook Guidebook and a paperback Workbook with space for answering each prompt.
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