Worldbuilder's Anvil

Today's Topic Creating a fantasy story from a world I have been asked several times what is the best way to start a new world building project? The problem is that is not one good way to start. However, in general, there are three good ways to construct a fictional world. The 3 Methods of worldbuilding In this week’s episode, we will walk you through how to figure out the best way to build your world. You will end up with one of these methods. Backwards Top-Down Hybrid The Backwards method of worldbuilding I do not mean it is backwards or wrong to use this method, stop being such a wordsmith. I mean work backwards to develop your world.  Take the settings that you want to tell stories in and work backward in history, so do not evolve but devolve your world. I really like working backwards if I know how I want the world to look at some point of the story.  I use it to give the world some historical details and more cultural depth and I know when I am done when I get to prehistory and I have covered all the