6 Tips for Mapping a Fictional World by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
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6 Tips for Mapping a Fictional World
6 Tips for Mapping a Fictional World
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0
Chapter 3 “World Building” – Section 2 “Maps”
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“I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). The other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities, and in any case it is weary work to compose a map from a story.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
If you've ever read or written a story that seemed unintentionally ethereal—where the descriptions did not paint a vivid picture of the setting but instead a more vague dreamscape that t