How to Create a World

You start with nothing.

You’re sitting alone in the dark, thinking. Then from out of nowhere, there’s a brilliant flash of blinding interior light, a searing white-hot fire that consumes thought and vision.

You have an idea.

Everything your world is and everything it will become is locked up inside of it, an infinitely hot, infinitely dense point of creative energy embedded in your soul. There’s a crack of mental thunder. A flash of lightning. For one brief instant, an entire universe that has y...