Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world. Typically, this involves creating history, geography, ecology, and so on. There are literally dozens and dozens of things to worry about when worldbuilding, and sometimes it’s a little daunting on where to start, but it doesn’t have to be. You see, worldbuilding is broken up into two phases: Big Picture and Small Picture worldbuilding, and today we’re going to focus on the former. Big Picture Worldbuilding are the aspects of your fictional world that reflect a macro scale. For the sake of this post we’re going to go into the following: Geography, Politics, Time, and History.

Now, I don’t want you to think that these are the definitive and only things required in worldbuilding, not at all. Simply, I want to present these as examples as to what constitutes worldbuilding on a macro scale. So with that out of the way, let’s begin:

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