Tag Archives: worldbuilding

5 Tips for World Building by David Gullen

Posted on 4 October 2022 by Jacey Bedford

Getting world-building ‘right’ seems to be a fascination with many writers. Panels at cons, podcasts, and blogs on this subject are ever-popular and seem to loom large compared to those on character, plot, tension, pace, and all the other things … Continue reading →

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Traps of World Building by David Gullen

Posted on 12 June 2018 by Jacey Bedford

It occurred to me that the one great challenge of world-building is that you are, in fact, building a world. What to put in? What to leave out? I’ve recently been reading The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to becoming … Continue reading →

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Creating Aliens by Deborah Walker

Posted on 25 September 2017 by Jacey Bedford

When I first started writing, I read Orson Scott Card’s advice about creating aliens in How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy. Card discusses developing the evolution of the distinct biology of an alien species, and how that imagined evolutionary process informs … Continue reading →

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I don’t know what colour the wallpaper is – by Marion Pitman

Posted on 25 April 2017 by Jacey Bedford

I don’t know what colour the wallpaper is, or what flowers are growing in the garden. I only work out with an enormous effort what season it is, what the weather is doing, what day of the week it is. … Continue reading →

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