worldbuilding 101

i will start this post with three disclaimers:

first, the most comprehensive resource for fantasy worldbuilding, imo, is patricia c. wrede’s fantasy worldbuilding questions, which asks nearly every worldbuilding question you could imagine. frankly, i’m not sure i could answer all of those questions for actual, real countries, let alone made up ones, and i wouldn’t want to! and i don’t think you need to either! but there are some superb questions in there and you’d probably want to answer some of ...