World Building: Creating Maps

Good morning star gazers and explorers. I hope you’ve had a good week.

This week I was feeling a little downhearted at times, so I took a look back at some of my old writing. It’s helpful to see how far I’ve come at times like this. As I looked back, I found an old fantasy story I’d written several years ago. It includes pages of my original notes and ideas and a map I drew of the world. As my more recent works have taken place in non-fictional, modern cities I’ve not had to do this for a while. But it got me thinking back to how much I enjoyed creating a map for my world, and so I want to blog about it.

In addition to some of my other world building blogs, I’m going to post a few tips and thoughts that helped me when I drew…