Worldbuilding Through Writing

Remember when I mentioned my worldbuilding process, and my penchant for making major worldbuilding changes when needed? How worldbuilding with charts and diagrams and questionnaires didn’t work for me?

Over at Book View Café, Katherine Kerr discusses Sagas, Series, and Just Plain Long Books. About halfway through the entry, I found this wonderful gem:

“Now, some people, more sensible than I am, would have sat down with a couple of notebooks and rationally figured out the answers to all these qu...