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THE 9TH EPISODE

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Go listen to the bardic hearth if you like D&D fantasey inspired stories with differant stories that have a connecting ark. The start is very slow, but trust me, it's soooo good once the plot kicks in. The one off stories are nice, but what really got me hooked is learning wtf is going on. Please go listen to it. i need it to have a bigger fandom i've litterally found no art for it!!!! T.T

Also kinda spoiler

30 Days of World Building by Mortaine

The Exercise: So, today's exercise is to draw out the physical contours of your map, and then identify at least three places that your people might live. You don't need names for them yet-- we'll worry about names next week, when we give our people language. Just draw a dot on the map or maybe sketch a little "house" symbol to indicate that people have settled that area. Comment from Holly Ingraham: My one quibble here is that you can't be arbitrary with deserts. Look at our one and only example, Earth. If we grossly simplify things, just for guidelines: Pretty much, you find deserts on western coasts as the cold currents start to curve away from land at the equator. That includes those of SoCal/Mexico, Spain/North Africa, western Australia, Peru, and the Thar Desert of India. The opposite corner of a continent will be in the tropical storm zone: monsoons of India and SE Asia, the hurricanes of the Caribbeans. The other time you get natural deserts is when the area is too far inland from the rainbearing air currents, especially in the rain-shadow of mountain ranges. You see this both in the western deserts of the US, in the shadow of the Rockies from the west and the Gobi of Asia, also in eastern Africa and the Near East that are in the rain-shadow of the Indian ranges. Central Asia is dry because it's just too far from the sea, the rain source, and lacks many rivers (for the same reason). So your islands close to the desert should be off a west-equatorial corner, and when you build a gigantic super-continent twice the size of Eurasia and Africa together you have to remember that most of it's going to be like Uzbekistan, not Ireland, for climate. [My background is geology, historical geology, and paleoclimatology. Climate revealed in flora and fauna can tell you something about where a land-mass was at the time. So we look for these guidelines.] Holly Ingraham is one of the moderators of Other Worlds Writing Workshop, and an excellent author and mentor for genre writers!

So for my world, Place of Places 2.0, you'll notice I kind color coded mine so it's easier to read. The names on the board are just my names for the races and where they settled. The big dots are large cities while the tiny dots are smaller/minor towns. The big green area is the forest, the big orange blob is the desert, and the area mixed with orange and green will be more tropical. Also important to note that my world spins opposite of our own planet and that this continent is in the northern hemisphere of my planet and roughly the size of North America. 

Alright guys I know I've been slacking and I really apologize for that. If yall can forgive me I'll marathon through Days 4-6 here for yall so that I'm caught up.

30 Days of World Building by Mortaine

The Exercise For 15 minutes, jot down some of the Really Big Land Features you want in your story and just think "what if that were made by...." Write down a couple of causes for those features and scars, and stick it all into your notebook. Which scars are slow-force scars (like plate tectonics), and which are fast-forces (anything that takes less than 10,000 years is medium-to-fast in geological scales).

Mountains- Plate tectonics, two land masses colliding in the northern regions. Earthquakes cause avalanches.

Giant Lake- Magical explosion created a crater and it was eventually filled in by rain and riverwater from the mountains and sea.

So since I didnt get the chance to post Day 2 yesterday I give you both Days 2 & 3 today. =) Enjoy!

30 Days of World Building by Mortaine pg. 22-23

The exercise: Read over your list from Day 1 and then turn to a blank piece of paper. Close your eyes and think about what kind of feeling you like to have when you write or read. Write down four words that fit into that feeling: two adjectives, a verb, and a noun. Now return to the page with your list of climates and emotions. Do any of them match up? If they do, you have your climate. If not, try to find closest-match words.

If you spend 10 solid minutes thinking about this and still can't decide, pick two climates that express moods you like. You can make up your mind later, and you can even build your world with both climates containing equally probable sites for your story.

desperation- sorrow, hopefulness, run, the road

Day 1's Work

30 Days of World Building by Mortaine pg.21

The Exercise What role do you anticipate weather playing in your story? Do you have a lot of travel that you want to complicate with bad storms? Are you going to snow in your mighty heroes? Will there be a mighty battle, determined by sudden flooding? You actually don't need to know right now. Your exerise for today is to jot down five to ten plot devices that relate to weather, and what you think they do to the story (for example: a snow-in can turn the mood very claustrophobic... or very intimate).

Sailing through a horrific hurricane (Makes reluectant travel companions work together to survive)

Trying to out run a sandstorm to shelter (The heroes lose something precious to them in the mad dash to safety)

Treking up the tallest mountain through the harsh cold to reach the top (A close companion dies saving our heroes)

A sudden blizzard snows the heroes in (Give our heroes a more personal moment)