Simple steps to create a Fantasy World for your novel

Jamie Smartkins
2 min readJun 3, 2020

The most exciting and intriguing part of developing a fantasy novel, urban fantasy or a sci-fi story is creating the perfect fantasy world of your novel. It is a big challenge for new authors to define the world they want to portray through the books. A magnificent set up of the world for your book can make your book successful. Thus it is absolutely necessary to get a clear picture of the fantasy world before drafting the plot of your story. In this article, let us know in details how we can define the world building in our novels.

Define every unknown elements of your fantasy world

Don’t use unknown jargons. Even if you use fantasy jargons, you must define it properly so readers can correlate with them. Your writing must resonate with the readers and thus defining any unknown elements is must. It can be place, characters of your novel, magical powers, mystical creatures, animals, galaxy, stars, aliens etc.

General Lifestyle

Every fantasy novel characters are governed by certain lifestyle. Define their lifestyle in minute details. If they are humans, does their lifestyle match with normal humans or if they possess magical powers, does their lifestyle changes?

Adventure

The world building should take the audience into thrilling adventure and the world should sound and look believable to the readers. Although it is fantasy story, your world should not be devoid of adventure.

There are many more ways by which you can create an interesting world building for your novel. You can check this ultimate guide to fantasy world building to know more.

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