The Joy of Creating a Fantasy World

As with many who read fantasy books, I have always wanted to create my own secondary world. Ive read books by J. R. R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, George R. R. Martin, Trudi Canavan, Ursula K. Le Guin (the list goes on) and those books have shaped the periods of my life in which they dominated. Canavan and Tolkien were my first forays into the fantasy genre, and I was taken away by the colossal creativity of these authors. Im not comparing them as they are very different but they both...