On Worldbuilding
- Trying to Write Non-Colonial Alternate History in a Fantasy Context
- World-building: To Start, I Ask Myself, Who is Visible?
- Looking for Women in Historically-Based Fantasy Worlds
- Worldbuilding: The Map is Not the Territory
- Maps and Miscellaneous
- Worldbuilding Top to Bottom (Q&A)
- The Status Quo Does Not Need Worldbuilding
- Podcast: Fantasy and Worldbuilding with Kate Elliott, Helen Lowe, and Courtney Schafer
- Jaran: When “What If” Deals With Gender and Culture
- The Book Wars Guest Post – The Writing Process: How One Writer Works
- Eater of Books Guest Post – On Creating a World with Regressed Women’s Rights
- On the Efficacy of Cold Magic (Spiritwalker Monday 11)
- The Creole of Expedition Pt. 2: Creating the Creole (Spiritwalker Monday 13)
- The Creole of Expedition Pt. 1: Setting the Stage and Asking the Question (Spiritwalker Monday 23)
- Doggerland, The Ice Age, and the Landscape of the Spiritwalker Novels (Spiritwalker Monday 28)
- Why Cat Sews (Spiritwalker Monday 30)
- Two Quick Questions (Spiritwalker Monday 31.1)
- Cold Fire Word Cloud & NaNoWriMo 2011 Day 1
- How Do Cold Mages Cook? (Q&A)
- Gail Carringer’s Intellectual Salon Guest Post: Egypt & Court of Fives
Guest Posts on IMUW:
- Guest Post by Helen Lowe on Worldbuilding
- Guest Post by Tansy Rayner Roberts: Looking for the Women (In Ancient Rome)
Reviews & Worldbuilding:
- Watching Avatar: The Last Airbender
- A Real Unreal Place: Sherwood Smith’s CORONETS AND STEEL & BLOOD SPIRITS
Worldbuilding Wednesdays
A weekly discussion and analysis of personal and general writing processes, from the inception of an idea to constructing overarching plot-points and minute details around it.
- Week 1: Introduction (Defining Worldbuilding)
- Week 2: The Flowering of an Image
- Week 3: Inductive or Deductive
- Week 4: Image to Idea
- Week 5: Deductive to Inductive: A Guest’s Perspective (Aliette de Bodard)
- Week 6: The Map as Theory
- Week 7: The Internal Map
- Week 8: Geography is Destiny
- Week 9: The Big Narratives Stand Atop Those Lives
- Week 10: Writing Outside Your Own Experience
- Week 11: Narrative Maps
- Week 12: Writing Women Characters into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas
- Week 13: Tropes – A Guest Post by Juliet McKenna