Sometimes the biggest danger in your fictional setting is the setting itself!  Natural disasters can challenge your characters, rewrite political boundaries, and threaten whole planets.  However, what...

We're used to calendars and holidays being part of our lives.  But what about our fictional settings?  How do our characters measure time, celebrate holidays, and why do they do these things? This book...

History is a vital part of our lives - and our fiction. How do your fictional cultures record history, deal with change, honor the past, and face the future? This book is here to help you bring history...

Goddesses can send you email, demons skulk on a distant prison-world, and the most popular soap opera is about sorcerers with great hair. Welcome to the planets that orbit the star Avenoth, where the...

Dangerous gods. Evil sorcery. Lost technology. Homework. Marigold the sorceress and Scintilla the technic were typical teachers of Techno-Mystical Safety. It took people with an edge to teach about mad...

The biggest disasters in your setting may be created by people, not by nature.  Man-made disasters wreak havoc, change society, and can be ignored due to arrogance and ignorance.  So what horrible crises...

As a worldbuilder you work to define your world – but what role do lies and falsehoods have in your creation?  Misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda have troubled humankind throughout history,...

Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories often feature in fiction.  But how can we make our fictional worlds more believable when skullduggery and lies are afoot?  How can we avoid lazy writing and promoting...

We're used to disaster response being part of our lives.  But what about our fictional settings?  How do our characters handle crises, recover from disaster, and learn? This book is a helpful series of...

Better writing comes from learning to think different. Agile is the approach you need to build a new mindset."Think Agile, Write Better" takes the ideas behind Agile software development, and shows how...

 Isekai is a popular genre - with a legacy going back long before the popular term.  However, when characters switch worlds, unique worldbuilding challenges confront the author.  How can we explore the...

Creating fictional worlds also means populating them - but how does the population keep populating? At some point you're good to have to look at your setting and ask, bluntly, just how sex works for the...

Creating fictional worlds also means figuring out how people manage to stay alive in that setting (or don't) - and that means food. However once characters start cooking, eating, and complaining about...