world building Archives - Auden Johnson

Fantasy Map Making: A Quick Guide

My journey with fantasy map-making has been an interesting one. I don’t have a design background. Any covers, maps, videos, basically anything […]

Creating a fantasy town doesn’t always mean several structures together in one location. I’ve created towns in one building, underground or a […]

Since I started publishing, I’ve been creating my fictional world maps in Photoshop. There were alternative apps but I don’t think they […]

I mentioned in the last post 2 Ways to Make Fantasy Maps in Photoshop, that I, as the title says, use Photoshop […]

I got into making fantasy maps because I needed them for my books but, I couldn’t afford to hire a designer. That’s […]

Creating fantasy races is probably one of my favorite parts of world-building. I talked a bit about this topic in the post […]

I’ve talked a lot about fantasy writing but the only world building template I created is in the book Building Dark Worlds. […]

Have you ever returned to an old fantasy story, or any story, and go, why did I think this was good? Design […]

For just a moment, he wanted to be left alone. Drifting across the water with such beautiful scenery should have been relaxing […]

If only magic was real. It’s not but I can give my characters the powers I want. You can make a fantasy […]