Character development
Every story features at least one character, and this character will be the key to relating your audience back to the story. This component is the bridge between you, the storyteller, and the audience. If your audience can put themselves in your character’s shoes, they’ll be more likely to follow through with your story.
- Character Creation 101: Better Characters are a Click Away!
- Role-playing Tips and Suggestions
- Creating a Successful Villain
- Non-Playable Characters (NPC's): What they're really about and more
Worldbuilding
- A load of questions to help you develop your nation
- Various useful things from the Worldbuilding School
- How to Build a Fictional World (Neil Gaiman's Masterclass)
- How to Write a Believable World: A Guide to Worldbuilding (Masterclass)
- r/worldbuilding's resources list (Reddit)
- Making realistic countries (Open Geofiction)
- Making realistic cities (Open Geofiction)
- Making realistic currency (Open Geofiction)
- Guide to a Wiki-Style Factbook, Embassies, and Consulates (NationStates)
- Dr. Zahir's Ethnographical Questionnaire (FrathWiki)
- /r/Worldbuilding Resources Master List (Reddit)
Writing
- Worldbuilding Prompts
- Writing tips and resources (Valucre)
- Krieg’s Guide To Losing (Kriegorgrad)
- Creating a Politician within Nationstates Roleplay (Jenrak)
- Non-Playable Characters (NPC's) -What they're really about and more (Euroslavia)
- Verse by verse: AI poem generator (Google)
- When to Stop Worldbuilding and Start Writing (J.S. Morin)
Flag-making (vexillology)
- Flag designer, browser-based or downloadable for free with more features
- Guide to good flag design
- A collection of logo design tutorials
Map-making (cartography)
- Nice mountains in Photoshop (should work in GIMP too, I haven't tested it yet)
- One page from there in particular, with useful mapping resources
- The famous Climate Cookbook
- First tutorial on applying the CC to a world
- Second tutorial on applying the CC
- Some other climate-related tips that I had bookmarked for some reason
- NASA's very own g-projector, for converting between map projections
- Software to develop climates based on terrain (there is a free version)
- Designing continents from scratch
- A diagram for determining climates the easy way
- Possibly the single best page on the internet for designing a whole planet
- A collection of map tutorials, as well as some biome guides
- A satellite map tutorial for Photoshop
- A guide to rivers
- Relationship between geology and civilization (Songs of the Eons)
Generators and tools
Conlangs (constructed languages)
- Grammars of not one, not two, but 1,362 languages (Incatena)
- Neography: constructed writing systems (Reddit)
Source: Worldbuilding resources for fun and profit (by Vrnallia)
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