Fiction Settings
Dee-Ann Latona
Articles
Placing Geographical Zones Part I
Now that we've got these blank continents with pointy mountains sticking up here and there, let's start deciding what kind of climates we're dealing with.
The Laws of Physics and Metaphysics
Every fictional world has rules that govern the forces that hold things together. Let's take a look at the possibilites when it comes to the realm of physics and metaphysics.
We now change gears after moving the continents into place and look at how to use good old H2O to carve more details into the planet's surface.
Building The Archaeological Remains Part II
We take our world now through another 10 million years of change, and try to imagine what is there.
Building The Archaeological Remains
Here's our first foray into actually placing things on our planet. Here we're not so much going into details about exactly what kind of plants and animals as we are building the setting on the supercontinents, so we can have some cohesion in the archaeological record when we break them apart ...
Now we take what we've learned and create the actual continents that exist on our planet.
Now that we've got tectonic plates, land, and seabeds arranged, we can drop the water onto our planet and see what happens.
How tectonic plates shape our world.
The Grand Project: An Introduction
Introduction of the World Building project, where we'll all build a world that will then be open for people to write within.
Introduction to what's involved in world building