Here are some tips I have for creating a fantasy medieval world or recreating one from history.
For starters, it is very simple, if you know what your doing. Before starting a creation/recreation, it is best if you do some research about daily lives and such of that time period, but it doesn%u2019t require prior knowledge or a lot of research.
To create a fantasy world, follow these steps. This is probably the most complicated one.
1 The research
-This is so you can chose what period in the medieval times to recreate in your world. This is because they each have different styles, such as the clothes, speech, buildings, and behaviors.
-Look at pictures.
2 List the things you learned from your research that you want included within your world
-Do this to keep track of the desired things.
3 Plan the names and what the world should look like
-Make a map. This is so you can have a visualization of your world, so you would be prepared for your places and distances when you go to write.
4 Plan what individual places should look like
-Make drawings or notes so you can be prepared for what your places look like when you write about them.
-Remember to give them the feel of the time period you want.
5 Plan the speech, characters, and characters lives
-Draw or make notes of the kinds of clothes, speech and actions of your character%u2019s daily lives from the period desired.
6 You are ready to write about your fantasy world!
To recreate a medieval world from history, follow these steps. This also applies to those wishing to do one based on a legend.
1 Think about what you want to write about
2 Research
-This is the most complicated part because you need so much. Go in depth to learn about your character%u2019s time frame and their life. Research that time period%u2019s speech, clothes and behaviors, as well as your character%u2019s life, if you choose to do of a historical figure and not create your own.
-Look at pictures.
3 Write a biography of your character
-Write everything from birth to death.
-Make a genealogy chart.
-List your character%u2019s behavior.
-List your character%u2019s friends and encounters
4 Plan the styles of that time, the clothes, speech, lives, and characters.
-Make notes or draw pictures.
5 List the place associated with your character.
6 You are now ready to start writing about your recreated medieval world!
Creating a medieval fantasy world or recreating one from history
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Nicely made! To go a bit off topic, I'd like to know what you do when it comes to maps--do you draw them out and then end up changing them later on? How do you end up drawing your maps?
I fail at drawing in general, and the pictures in my head are not big-scale; I can picture certain forests, castles, etc., very clearly, but when it comes to placing them in relation to each other, that's where I find myself struggling. Often I'll end up redoing each map because I decided to plunk a lake where a mountain was or something like that. -
Well, you don't have to be good at drawing; I am not. To draw them is actually really simple. I recommend drawing them only in pencil, so then you could change it later on. All you really need to do is to draw it in the places you want, but to have the borders darker than the others. For mountains all you have to do is make a triangle and for forests you just need sticks with circles. To do cities and stuff, all you have to do is to put a dot and the name, but if you have a capitol, put a start so you wont get confused. Then, if you want to do a map about the cities, just draw the building and roads, etc. Remember to label everything so you would be prepared.
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Alright, well that's just about what I do.
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Alright, well that's just about what I do.
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Moved discussion.
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