You may recall that when I embarked on this worldbuilding sequence early in the new year, I quickly discovered that I had already done a great many worldbuilding posts over the life of this blog: O-o.

The Wall of Night Series map; artist Peter Fitzpatrick

Since then, I’ve refeatured the most significant ones here, and also here, as well as pulling others into a recent listicle and reminded readers and followers about the delights of A Geography of Haarth.

In terms of new material, I lauded the wisdom of Ursula Le Guin and pointed aspiring worldbuilders to her “how to” book on writing, Steering The Craft. Subsequently, I contributed my own flow-on reckons in a post titled Beware The Expository Lump.

What I may have mentioned in passing, but haven’t yet re-linked to, is my year of featuring Worldbuilding in Fantasy on the Supernatural Underground. A post listing all twelve instalments in that series, with links provided, is here:

Wrapping Up A Year of Worldbuilding in Fantasy, on the Supernatural Underground Blog

When I reviewed my initial list, however, I discovered there was still more material, as yet unreprised. Most, if not all, of it relates to different aspects of the Wall of Night world: history, landscape, technology, weapons et al — much of it written to support the releases of The Gathering of the Lost and Daughter of Blood respectively. So upon reflection, I feel that much the best time to reprise it will be in advance of The Chaos Gate, at which point I can update the entries with hints about the new book and its worldbuilding,

Overall, though, if worldbuilding generally is your interest, then On Worldbuilding is definitely the go-to post. If the Wall of Night is your reason for dropping by, then My Worldbuilding — A Few Thoughts on Guiding Influences may repay your time.

BUT — The 2019 Q&A Series

(Just to prove that “Buts” aren’t always negative :D), although I’m deferring the worldbuilding at this point, what I will be re-featuring is a 2019 Q&A in which I answered reader questions about Daughter of Blood and the WALL series. I rediscovered the material when looking at the worldbuilding posts and I really do feel that they’re interesting enough to warrant posting again.

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So as of this Thursday, I’ll be posting a question and answer, every other week, interspersed with other series like About The Characters. I’ll be interested to know what you think, once you re-read. 🙂

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