{"id":441,"date":"2017-07-11T09:27:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T09:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:41:21","slug":"fantasy-world-building","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/refiction.com\/articles\/fantasy-world-building","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy World Building for Real-World Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sometimes you can get lost in fantasy world building. There\u2019s so much to account for. This guide will help you find your way to a successful setting that will wow your readers with originality\u2014despite having its roots in Earth.<\/p>\n
Travel blogs can be the best place to start looking for exotic place inspiration.<\/p>\n
Start by building a snapshot file of the most exotic scenes on earth. These can span a massive variety of climates and cultures. If pictures are worth a thousand words each, you can save yourself a heap of notebooks by cultivating a great photo gallery.<\/p>\n
A way to develop unique landscapes in your novel is to come up with larger-than-life scenes in a sketchbook or file.<\/p>\n
If you sketch, draw a series of landscape concepts that match the combination of real world locations you saw in your photos. If you photo- or video-edit, you can use your editing software to do the trick.<\/p>\n
The use of multiple landscapes combined with your personal touch will solidify your experience with the Terra Firma of the world you’re putting together.<\/p>\n
This method will help you realize people groups in your fantasy world building.<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered what a merge between Japanese Bushido and the Reindeer People would look like? What sort of festivals and ceremonial costumes would such a hybrid race hold and wear?<\/p>\n
The secret to imagining strange fantasy cultures comes from combining elements of the most exotic cultures in our world. Make notes of the most similar and different attributes of two separate cultures and see how you can merge these.<\/p>\n
This step applies only if you want to create a language with actual rules that your fans can learn to speak.<\/p>\n
Observe the cultural languages of the countries you have used as models. To continue with our cultural example, what would a cross between Japanese Haiku poetry style and traditional Reindeer yoiking (chant songs) sound like? What would the rules of such a language be? How could you develop a system for learning such a complex hybrid language?<\/p>\n