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✨ watch the rest of the fantasy worldbuilding series:
PART ONE: you are here!
PART TWO: geography, ecology, and history -    • 🌎 fantasy worldbuilding 101 - pt. 2: ...  
PART THREE: culture, identity, and language -    • 🌙 fantasy worldbuilding pt. 3: cultur...  
PART FOUR: politics, economics, and daily life -    • 🏹 fantasy worldbuilding 101 - pt. 4: ...  
PART FIVE: magic systems, myths, and faith -    • 🔮 fantasy worldbuilding pt. 5: magic ...  

welcome to the start of a new writing craft advice series that I'm really excited to share with you guys! today, I wanted to cover the absolute basics of building a fantasy world from scratch. worldbuilding is an aspect of fantasy writing I used to really underestimate, but it's both super fun and a great way to enrich your spec fic.

we're going to go a lot more in-depth in future videos, so please let me know what worldbuilding topics intrigue you the most.

thank you for watching :)

✨ timestamps
0:00 - title card
0:44 - THAT awful Harry Potter map
5:16 - pt. 1: why is worldbuilding important?
8:28 - pt. 2: types of fantasy worldbuilding
10:26 - pt. 3: how to pick a world
14:09 - pt. 4: how to build a world
15:59 - pt. 5: how to write a world
18:49 - outro

✨ music
take flight // louie zong
mushroom's life // chillpeach
land of dreams // chillpeach

✨ previous:
write a fantasy novel with me pt. 6: I hit 10k words!    • ✨ write a fantasy novel with me pt. 6...  

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