Look What I Found

I've been working on building a world for my latest story (one that, hopefully, I will soon shelve in favour of finishing some of my others) and having a bit of trouble focusing my thoughts. I decided to go in search of some help online and found this. It's a list of fantasy worldbuilding questions from Patricia C. Wrede and it includes thought-provoking questions to make you consider every corner of your imaginary world, including physical and historical features; magic and magicians; peoples and customs; social organization; commerce, trade and public life and daily life. You should ABSOLUTELY check it out, whether you write sci-fi, fantasy, speculative fiction, historical fiction or anything that takes place anywhere other than exactly right here, right now.

I've also added a link to the link list, with a helpful name like "Worldbuilding Questions" or something like that.

Happy creating, people.

Sacred-Texts Dot Com

Before I forget (again), I went and added a link in the Links section to Sacred-Texts.com

Check it out. It's an awesome website that has wonderful people working there. They've taken the time to type up and assemble every sacred text from every religion they could get their hands on. It's a wonderful resource, especially for the writer who loves to use mythology and religions from cultures around the world.

Seriously - they've got everything from Christianity to Buddhism to Wicca to Druids to Hinduism to Thelema to Shinto and Icelandic mythology. New texts go up fairly regularly, from what I can tell, and they've even got a CD-ROM you can buy with the entire collection on it.

Definitely a site worth checking out.