Worldbuilding Spotlight: Types of Governments

When creating governments it is important to know what kind of government or governments you wish to create. You need to know the functions of those governments and how they interact with each other if you have multiple nations at... Read more

Worldbuilding Spotlight: Fictional Governments for Fictional Worlds

There is a lot that goes into worldbuilding. When you are creating a fully fictional place, that list gets even longer. So much influences the lives of your characters that might not be an obvious part of them. One of... Read more

Worldbuilding Spotlight

Starting next week I will be adding a weekly Worldbuilding Spotlight. These will cover one topic for one month and then move on to the next topic for the next month. Occasionally we will return to these topics if I... Read more

Interviewing with The Writing Kylie

I might be a little biased here, but I have most if not all of Kylie Day’s books on writing. Upon seeing that she had a character interviews on her website, I definitely needed to include a link to it... Read more

Character Interviews with K. M. Weiland

One interesting post I found on character interviews is by K. M. Weiland. The post, called 100+ Questions to Help You Interview Your Character does not play the same way as most interviews. It is more like a questionnaire to... Read more

Creating Meaningful Character Backstories

Creating a character can be pretty complex. There is a lot that can and often does go into it and sometimes you just don’t know where to start. You want a character who stands out and is memorable without becoming... Read more

Pampers Name Generator?

As with the Huggies one I did a while back in November, this one was a bit of a surprise. I guess I shouldn’t be surprise that a site dedicated to diapering the bottoms of babies would want to get... Read more

Nameberry Hunter

We previously discussed the baby name website Nameberry. One element of that site that we did not cover was their random name generator. I love the name they gave it: Namehunter. It gives the impression that you are a hunter... Read more

World Builders

This new addition to the map makers series is another one that talks about how to make maps as well as some of the tools you can use to make them. I love the mindset of the author on Where... Read more

The Bump On Names

Many websites for expectant and new parents have sections on naming. With a selection of over 40,000 names, one such website is The Bump. The Bump has a lot of different lists for prospective parents and authors to look through... Read more