Worldbuilder's Anvil

Interview: Rae Elliot From the age of eight Rae Elliot has been on a journey to becoming a writer. Her love of writing and storytelling merged with her love of Fantasy and science fiction with her first book Fractured, a science fiction novel. Fractured is also available on iTunes in a podcast. Her next fiction novel will be a fantasy novel called Treefell: Legend of The Wood. Beyond her love for Fantasy she is now working on a non-fiction work "Pinterst for Indie Authors"

1. Introduction
2. Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
3. Tell us about your latest work.
4. How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
5. When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
6. Biggest achievement to date?
7. What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
8. Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

Gauntlet round

1. What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
2. Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
3. What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
4. What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
5. What tool(s) could you not work without?
6. What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
7. If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

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Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Trap: The Trouble with Tropes

• What is a Trope?
• Are Tropes bad?
  • Understanding your Avatar
  • does it seem forced
  • Does it seem fake
• Make up your own mind.
• Understanding you Avatar is they key

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Today's Topic - TAX Attack

• How does your fictional government support its power?
• Direct Taxes and duties
  • Property Tax
  • Income Tax
  • Statute Labor
  • Salt Tax
  • Tenure Tax
  • Tithe
  • Tariffs
  • Tribute
  • Inheritance Tax
  • Excise Tax
  • Tolls
  • Marriage Tax
  • Minority Tax
• Indirect Taxes
  • Sales Tax
  • Value Added Tax
  • Goods and Services
  • Inflation
  • Subsidy
  • Corporate Tax

Thanks to The Entrepreneurs Library and Ray Rose WC Talk Radio for the great reviews

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Today's Topic - Types of Governments in Fantasy Worldbuilding

• Power of the state
  • Anarchy
  • True democracy
  • consent of the governed
  • Limited Monarchy
  • Authoritarian
• How do rulers come to power
  • Birth
  • Personal traits
  • Appointed by divine source
  • Appointed by previous leader
  • Coup
  • Random selection
  • Election
• How is the transitions of power handed
  • Peaceful
  • Violent
  • War
• How are rights earned
  • Natural Rights
  • Rights granted by rulers
    • Nepotism
    • Forced by the mob
    • Reward
• Who owns what?
  • Individuals own property
  • State owns property
• Is the stated tied to a religion
• What do you call your state? List of common government types
• Special thanks to Nick

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Interview: Anna Questerly

Bookseller and bibliophile turned author, Anna Questerly writes medieval fiction and fairy tales for smart kids and young hearts. For adults, she creates Utopian fantasy as A.J. Questerly

1. Introduction
2. Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
3. Tell us about your latest work.
4. How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
5. When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
6. Biggest achievement to date?
7. What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
8. Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

Gauntlet round

1. What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
2. Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
3. What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
4. What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
5. What tool(s) could you not work without?
6. What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
7. If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

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Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Religions and Fantasy States

• Create folder for your Fantasy religion in your Scrivener worldbuilding bible.
  • Add a religions document
  • Religion links to track
    • What percentage of the population follows this religion
    • When did the religion first appear.
    • Does the state have influence over the religion
    • Is the religion approved by the state
      • If not what happens if you get caught engaging in worship.
    • Are there any parts of the religion that are not the same in this country
• This could change overtime

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Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Cultural and Racial Links in your Fantasy State

• Create folder for your Fantasy country in your Scrivener worldbuilding bible.
  • Add a Cultural and a Racial links document
  • Cultural links to track
    • When culture first joins the state.
    • Culture disappears from the state
    • What percentage of the population belongs to the state
  • Racial links
    • All races should come from the cultural links
    • What percentage of the population in the fantasy country
• This could change overtime

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Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Trap: Paralysis by Analysis

• Worldbuilding helps create framework for story
• When it is happening?
  • When you stop writing first draft.
  • When you remake the world every time you start a revision
  • When you avoid writing or storytelling because you have to work on the world
• Telling the stories is the point
• What is okay?
  • If you pause to record newly minted words in a language
  • Record new unexpected world elements
  • You are worldbuilding as education and you are using stories to explore your world
• Tips
  • New world elements folder in your Scrivener file
  • "GO GO GO" note
  • record what you need for story.

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Interview: Aaron Wood

Please listen to learn more about Aaron Wood. A geek at heart and artist that has created some wonderful book covers and propaganda.

1. Introduction
2. Do you feel Orc or Elf today?
3. Tell us about your latest work.
4. How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
5. When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
6. Biggest achievement to date?
7. What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
8. Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

Gauntlet round

1. What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
2. Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
3. What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
4. What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
5. What tool(s) could you not work without?
6. What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
7. If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

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Today's Topic - Worldbuilding Fantasy State History

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• Important Things remembered
  • Truth according to the culture
  • based on norms
• Wars
• Turmoil
• Major Expansions
  • War or land
  • Trade
  • Science
  • Magic
  • Exploration
• Stagnant periods
• Major new discovers
  • New Power
  • new type of geography
  • new item in the night sky

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