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I don’t work on it currently… Time and stuff. I’ll continue when I know for sure I can invest time and brain cells in it.

Umm… It depends on what kind of world are you about to create. Generally, writing worlds don’t ave to be too complicated and developed – as long as something won’t enter the story, you don’t have to invent it in the first place.

Not only that, you can have bad worldbuilding and still have a good story – though I won’t recommend it, because it’s mere laziness in my eyes… Some really successful book series, like Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire (which I by no means recommend reading, but is really successful, and is artistically excellent) and, in some sense, even the Lord of the Rings, have holes (small to huge) in their worldbuilding – But since nobody came there to read about worlds, but about people and their epic stories, it didn’t bother most of the readers.

For writing-worlds, I’d recommend SE’s worldbuilding questionnaire – it does the job really good, and is totally enough for writing-worlds.

If, however, you want your world to stand on its own, besides the story, or you just want to have some fun worldbuilding imaginary universes…

Disclaimer: I’m only a beginner, so take my advice with a grain of salt, and if needed, go check out resources.

I’d recommend you to first think about the metaphysics of the world – of course God and morality are the same, but maybe there, He created 7 angels, of whom 6 have rebelled, and only one has stayed faithful? Does your world has any magic system(s)? If so, what is it?

I’d recommend SE’s questionnaire for metaphysics. They covered it really good, and I have nothing to add.

Once you have the metaphysics, think about the physics. What sort of world do you want to build? Is it going to be real-universe-like, based on scientific principles? If so, will it be similar to modern day Earth? Will it be more like the pre-Flood world? Maybe you want to create an oceanic planet, covered by water, and inhabited by a mermaid-like race and strange marine creatures and monsters? Or will you create an apocalyptic world, where – due to meteorological conditions you can simulate in worldbuilding – hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur on a daily basis? Or maybe your world isn’t going to stand in any scientific criteria at all, and will be flat, with flying islands and oceans of mist?

There, things start getting really fun… If you worldbuild a real-universe-like world, I’d recommend a YouTube channel called Artifexian. He’s evolutionist, but since we have the same evidences on both sides, he’s still really helpful – just ignore some of his counsels that are irrelevant for Christians. He covered almost every possible topic (from galaxies to earth-like planets to climates – he still doesn’t have ecology and stuff, but I believe he’ll have someday).

If your world has a magic system that might effect it’s physical conditions – Here’s the place to enter it. You can even decide that things work in a certain way just because magic, and it will work perfectly fine – floating islands don’t need a scientific explanation. Maybe your world has a magical gas flying in it’s atmosphere, that causes certain things? Magic can exist in a real-universe-like world, you’ll just have to explain why things occur, and how – that’s at least what I believe.

Climates, geography, plate tectonics, ecological systems, rivers, all are included here. Each of them deserves a paragraph of its own, but I won’t talk too much. If you need any help with something, feel free to ask 🙂

Once you have the world, think about its human (or mermaid?) history. You should begin with a story of a perfect world that falls (you can copy the real-world story, or change things – maybe the fall happened only after there were many people on Earth?). What happened then? What natural (and supernatural) events affected the human history?

Again, history is a long and complicated subject… Feel free to ask for help in specific topics 🙂

I hope it all was useful… I didn’t cover almost anything, I know, but there’s so much to talk about, I’m sure I can’t cover everything in one post.