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World Building: Language

I’ve been looking forward to writing this post for a while. For those of you who don’t know, I’m a bit of a language-nerd. I’ve always enjoyed languages and have had a love for English since childhood (it not being my first language How To Write English When Your English Sucks, of course). I later dabbled in Russian and have reached a beginner’s proficiency in Japanese. Naturally, I’d incorporate…

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World Building: History

When you’re world building, chances are you’re thinking of what has happened in your world, before the events of your story take place. You’ll be working on your world’s history for quite a while before you actually get to the world itself. So how do you go about it? Well I’ve been world building for years now (on different stories of course) and I’ve figured out a few things about the process…

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World Building: Religion

I’d like to introduce to you the first World Building post! These posts will be dropped in the Fiction Forge slot on Wednesdays, as is appropriate. They’re basically posts that will help you world-build certain elements of your story. I’ll be focussed mainly on Fantasy, but these can be applied to Science Fiction as well (perhaps others too, you be the judge). Anyway, let’s get started!

When you…

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Writing A Post-Apocalypse

The apocalypse is something we, as a society, fear and have feared for generations. It is something that awakens a deep sense of terror within us that feels so viscerally real that how could it not be possible? While the actual apocalypse is probably very far off, we still like to imagine what would happen if it did roll around. This is what gave birth to the “post-apocalypse” sub-genre.

But how…

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