Becky's Worldbuilding Journal

Hi, Welcome to my worldbuilding blog. This is day one of my attempt to build a fantasy world/setting using the 30 Days of World Building method.

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With no further ado here we go with Day One - Variety and Climate

Get out a map or go to an international website like National Geographic. Look everywhere. Antarctica. Saudi Arabia. The rainforests of Brazil. The rainforests of Central California. Look at how the different climates behave and appear.

The first fifteen minute exercise is to write down all the different climates you can think of-- if you need to just say a city name, do it. Sometimes "Seattle" is more evocative than "northern damp temperate climate." Write these names down in a list.

Then, go through that list and write one or two words that describe how that climate, either the word itself or the way the place itself may have made you feel, if you've been there before. Try to stick to abstract adjectives; emotional words, if you can, but nouns are also okay.

Put this list in your notebook (this blog in my case). Tomorrow, you'll really need it, so keep it handy.

Hmm...

Ice cap, Tundra, boreal forest/taiga (cold, long winter, maily coniferous northern forests), cool semi-arid gasslands (steppes), inland cold deserts (eg Gobi), Temperate rainforests, Temperate broadlead forests, Wet coastal temperate areas (eg UK climate), hot tropical deserts (eg sahara), mediterranean scrubland, savanna, cloud forest (eg Andes), alpine/mountainous, tropical rainforest, tropical monsoon forest, tropical dry forest (eg southern mexico), coastal desert (eg atacama), temperate grasslands, sub-tropical grasslands...

And I'm out of time. I'm sure I missed some but that seems a reasonable list to start with. I couldn't really come up with many emotional descriptions though so I just named the climates I could think of.

See you tomorrow.