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Gabrielle Massman 3 years ago Advertisements

Just like in the real world, your fictional world needs to have stories which are integral parts of your characters’ thought processes and lives. They become the motivating factors for wars, life changing decisions, and the poems your characters sing in the tavern. They are the flesh of your fictional world that take it beyond a skeleton.

While, some authors spend years on these stories, have enough to literally fill multiple other books, and end up depressing every aspiring writer (we are look at you, Tolkien!), other published authors have almost none. However, I really think that every world needs at least a few histories and stories which affect the narrative. Only you can decide how many stories you need, but if you have the time, I would suggest writing too many stories than too little. After all, the past is what made your world what it is in your story.

It is easy to create a world without stories behind it, but if your world is even one hundred years old, then it will have transformed. These stories record the change and sometimes even cause change. If your world does not, at least, have some history, it will come off flat and unrealistic. Even The Hunger Games, which was not known for its world building, had the history of a civil war (with District 13) and a history of previous Hunger Games.

Before you go any farther with this post, you will need to make a timeline. Use Excel, Word Charts, Paint to make a timeline; I do not care. However, you will need to make a proper time line, or else you will lose track of everything. I would recommend Excel because you will be able to write overlapping events in one timeline.

If you already have an idea of what your world looks like, then my suggestion is to go back and think about the earliest period when your world was first being colonized. What did it look like? Who really pushed the colonization? Who decided the nation’s boundaries? Once I have that, then I typically add in several small wars between bordering nations along with at least one worldwide war. It is also good to have the government of each nation change hands (or change types of government) several times. Then think about environmental catastr