7 Skills
The 7 Key Skills of a Great World Builder
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How To Design A Town The Fantastic Maps Way
Jonathan Roberts of Fantastic Maps has published a fantastic quick tutorial that teaches you how to design a town. I’ve been a fan of Jonathan’s work for a long time especially since he was commissioned…
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Mass Effect: Bending Your Own Rule Is Ok – BUT DON’T BREAK IT!
The recent magic articles on Sanderson’s First and Second law has brought up a number of interesting discussions about internal-consistency and learning how to bend the rules we have created as writers without losing the…
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Sanderson’s Second Law Of Magic – The Power Of Limitations.
This article follows on from the article “Have You Mastered The First Law Of Magic?” Sanderson’s Second Law Of Magic “Limitations > Powers” Brandon Sanderson, 2011 Essentially this law is saying that adding limitations to…
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Have You Mastered The First Law Of Magic?
Welcome my dear Witches, Wizards, Warlocks and all you other magic folk sat in the rafters. Today’s lesson is the most fundamental lesson you need in order to use magic in your story world. Sanderson’s…
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NASA needs your help to search for Habitable Worlds
I had written an article about magic to go out this week however when Jeno told me about this online course from NASA and The Arizona State University I quickly swapped the publishing calendar as…
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Adding Texture To The Ocean And Land
If you’ve randomly generated your land from the last tutorial then you should have a green island ready to start this next part. My island looks like the following: