7327747.png (407×267) Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World through Mapping. Most of the books I’ve written have started with a map. Not with an idea, or a character, or a theme. With a hand-drawn map, doodled out first while I was sitting and keeping someone else company, or while I was on break, or when I couldn’t think of what to write and had no ideas to speak of and knew that if I drew a map something would come to me. Some of the maps were fairly artistic from the start. Some began on napkins or the backs of throw-away paper, and only became things of any artistic merit after they’d served their initial purpose of handing me an idea for a novel.
Now I know this is a weird little quirk of mine, and I can’t guarantee you that if you’ll just draw a map, it will give you a novel that will sell. I have favorite tools for mapping. This first map is going to be your continent. Before we get started, I want to be VERY clear about one issue that I know some of you are already sweating over. Okay. Get out your graph paper. It’s time to make use of your mistakes.
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