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Fantasy Map Maker Jump Start: 61 Easy Tips for Fantasy World Building with Real Earth Science
NEW EDITION! Now with expanded tips and photo illustrations.~FANTASY MAP MAKER JUMP START is the world-building book for creative people who want to develop their worlds with the confidence backed by modern earth science.In this concise and practical how-to guide, professional author and creative cartographer, D.N.Frost, explains the myriad ways our planet creates all the environments on Earth, and she delivers those concepts in 61 useful bite-sized tips that help you Build your fantasy world with a blueprint of how civilizations thrive and the power of geology in your back pocket.* Make your world make sense. And keep all the features you love.* Create the coolest world you can dream up. With unique places and cultures that defy logic but still feel real.Within FANTASY MAP MAKER JUMP START, you’ll learn why the Earth formed as it did, how to mirror that realism in your invented world, how to adapt your fantasy cultures to their unique environment, and how to break all the rules for the most epic fantasy setting your stories have ever seen.
144 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 20, 2018
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D.N. Frost
6 books4 followersHello there! My name is D.N.Frost, and I'm a fantasy author and writing mentor. My love for storytelling drives me to build the Known World, map its lands, and tell its tales. Let me send you my free ebook at DNFrost.com!
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January 30, 2021
Worth the read
This was a very strong book in understanding all that "lies beneath.". There are no illustrations whatsoever which may impact the popularity of this book . Most map makers, I assume, are extremely visual people and lacking illustrative examples may prove somewhat fatal for this book's popularity. However, all this being said , I still read it cover to cover and will most likely return to it when considering other maps at their origin. The information within is highly accessible even given what traditionally is quite dry information lacking illustrations. I would recommend it for the beginner.
This was a very strong book in understanding all that "lies beneath.". There are no illustrations whatsoever which may impact the popularity of this book . Most map makers, I assume, are extremely visual people and lacking illustrative examples may prove somewhat fatal for this book's popularity. However, all this being said , I still read it cover to cover and will most likely return to it when considering other maps at their origin. The information within is highly accessible even given what traditionally is quite dry information lacking illustrations. I would recommend it for the beginner.
May 28, 2020
Just info
Not a bad reference book on geography science and how it relates to mapmaking, but it was a dull read.
Not a bad reference book on geography science and how it relates to mapmaking, but it was a dull read.
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