Creating Cultures: Where to Start?

World building. Everyone has to do it. It can be fun, or it can be grueling. What questions do you ask? What should be addressed? Is it just the physical setting that has to be dealt with? What about the people who live there?

I’m going to assume you have an image of what the world looks like in your head. That’s usually the easy part. But what about the people who live there? This aspect of world building often goes unrecognized. Unfortunately, without thinking about the culture, the world is going to suffer. Culture impacts everything about how a person views the world. You’ve heard of culture shock, right? That’s what happens when you interact with people from cultures different from your own and you have to adjust accordingly. Do that to your reader. Create a culture so rich and vibrant that your reader falls in love with the people in the background of your novel and wants to live there.

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Published on April 18, 2018 13:33 Tags: blog-post, creating-culture, culture, where-to-start, world-building, writing
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