Worldbuilding has the power to captivate a reader. To transport them from their everyday life to somewhere surprising and unique. It’s why...

World Building Tips 1. Be anti-monolith: One of the great disservices modern science fiction has done is convince some of us that worlds out...

Oh man, my fellow SFF Seveners have had some excellent posts sharing their Top 5 World-Building Tips. How do I add to that ?? #1: Should I...

  This week we're sharing our Top 5 World-Building Tips. Firstly, ditto what Charissa suggested in Sunday's post . Secondly, since I...

Worldbuilding! What's in a world? A LOT. Ultimately, you can read posts like this all day, but many ideas might not come to you until yo...

Rules…rules…rules were meant to be broken?  Close, but our topic of the week is: What’s a rule of your world established in a preci...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is "Channeling JK Rowling: Any apologies due your readers for the way you treated a character?...

This week, we're talking about time management in general and specifically how much time world-building gets in the schedule versus actu...

Our topic this week at the SFF Seven - one entirely appropriate for science fiction and fantasy authors - is "spending time on worldb...

When I was in Denver for the RWA National Conference , my friend and writing buddy, Darynda Jones , and I took a lunch break at Ship Tav...

In no way can I tell you where I got the bug put into my author brain, but here it is. We can dissect it if you wish. The bug has many ...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is "doing the research" - and what that means for building new fantasy or alien culture...

The picture has nothing to do with the subject today. It's just the season for butterflies in the zinnias and I was lucky enough to be...