If you’ve been a writer for any length of time, especially if you’ve braved the merciless arena of writer support groups, you’ve likely heard the battle cry: “You need to do more showing and less telling,” accompanied by corporate-style head nods from the rest of the group. To be completely honest, I’ve experienced some rather visceral reactions upon hearing this advice, regardless of whether it was aimed at me. Thoughts like “What do these people know?” and “Who appointed Da

World building is an art and a craft unto itself. And as any author or aspiring author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre may tell you, it can be a daunting task. Before you even start to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard to write your first draft, you have to have a solid vision of what your world looks like, feels like, smells like, how it works, what races and peoples and cultures are present, how the landmasses and climatology works, everything. It’s huge. It’s bigger than