Becka's World Building Workshop ~ Post #4

This is part FOUR of my SEVEN part World Building Workshop. This series will be posted every two weeks. If you've missed the previous issues, here are the links to them:

World Building Workshop Post #1

World Building Workshop Post #2

World Building Workshop Post #3

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CROPS AND CREATURES

For those making a Sci-fi world, this section might not be as important to you, but you might want to read along regardless.

In your world, you might want to create unique crops or creatures. You might have orchards of white apples or elves and fairies. Do unicorns exist? Dragons? Orcs? Goblins? What about other strange creatures? How about extremely large birds? Harpies?

Maybe you could have mutants as well. Could centaurs be the product of magic gone awry? For those doing a Sci-Fi, you could have mutant people or maybe even creatures in the same way the movie "Total Recall" had. Remember because they were breathing tainted air they became mutants? Has that happened on your isolated lunar colony?

Now the fun with this section is if one of your characters somehow get sucked from our present day world into this strange new fantasy world you've created. How would someone react to seeing a faun for the first time?

Create creatures and plant life to thrive in your world and put them in regions on your terrain map. Perhaps your white apples only grow in a small isolated orchard high in the mountains. Now why are these apples special? Because they provide long life to any who eat them. So they would probably be in high demand at the royal court, right?

Well, you can see where the imagination might run away with you on that. But go with it! Whatever creatures or plant life you create can be easily written into the history of your world which is one of the upcoming topics I'm planning on talking about later on.What makes your world unique? Is it filled with magical creatures? Mutants? Strange creatures that might 'almost' look like our own terrestrial animals?

Believe it or not, once you have this outlined, a history is much easier to write, as you can weave the creatures into the background of your world. You can weave folk tales around the unicorns that live in the forest. Legends surrounding the elusive white apple. :)

You never know. So be fruitful and multiply! :)

~~Becka