April Worldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind WEEK 1: TOWN/CITY 1: A city/town/etc. in your book 2: What is the local government like? 3: What is their source of water? 4: Imports and exports 5: Architectural style 6: Cleanliness 7: Local specialties (foods, souvenirs, art) WEEK 2: FANTASY SPECIES – BIOLOGY 8: Non-human species/race name and physical traits 9: Fighting or movement style 10: What can they do that a human cannot do physically? 11: Are their houses or clothes modified to accommodate their bodies? 12: Do they have different or improved senses? 13: Biological interactions with another species (symbiosis, parasitism, etc.) 14: What do they eat? WEEK 3: FANTASY SPECIES – CULTURE 15: Important person of their species/race 16: Laws, rights, or discrimination specific to a species/race 17: Cultural interactions with another species (trade, war, isolation, etc.) 18: Birth and/or death rituals 19: What jobs/tasks do they do? 20: Symbols/motifs used in their culture 21: Cultural values – morality, education, family WEEK 4: MOON AND STARS 22: Fact about the moon and/or stars in your world 23: Constellations 24: Magic associated with celestial bodies 25: Myths/legends about the moon and/or stars 26: Rituals/celebrations done by night 27: In-world art/literature inspired by moon/stars 28: Any significance of dreams? EXTRA DAYS 29: What is your current project? 30: How long have you been worldbuilding? The background is a landscape image of sakura trees near a lake with some rocky outcrops and a mountain in the distance. The image comes from Pixabay and was labeled as being human-made

Before I forget because I'm addicted to Pokopia and might not be online much for the next few days, here are your #AprilWorldbuilders prompt questions!

Aside from my current addiction, I've finished my BIG projects, so I am hoping to be more online, active and ready to engage this month!

Woo, I'm necroprompting! Here's #AprilWorldbuilders with two responses I always wanted to post but never did because my characters weren't well enough developed at the time. Now that they are, I give you April 1st and 2nd, 2025. #WritingPrompts

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#AprilWorldbuilders 13: Laws/etiquette regarding speech/gestures

In Essera it's considered uncivilized, and therefore rude, to speak any language but Stauba.

It's also the height of boorishness to speak to someone of higher rank unless they've spoken first or given permission. #epicfantasy

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In Sigils, Omeran is just what I call English. It keeps it feeling otherworldly.

The other languages spoken are completely fictional.

-Kharvali, by the indigenous northern frozen desert people.
-Navikulan, by enemy #1 of the empire.

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I've been world building since I was 9 years old. I had my first short story published. It was a science fiction story. The characters were all kids in my 3rd grade class. there were aliens and we were in space on a ship. #AprilWorldbuilders #writingcommunity
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I've been world building as a hobby for 48 years or so. It started after I saw Star wars as a child. Now I'm trying to do it professionally.

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I've been worldbuilding since I was in my early teens and wrote my first novel in a notebook. It was a teen mystery like The Famous Five or Kitty Drew and it's really bad 😆 But worldbuilding for my fantasy world, since 2017, if my notes are correct.

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Has it already been eleven years?! Man, time flies😮‍💨

It’s been ten since I first created Anura, though there were years it took a back seat in favor of other settings (the worlds of the Eleutherian League, the Silver Shrike, and superhero alt-Earth).

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Probably since I've been writing...the first few years were fanfiction, and the world was mostly built for me, I just added a few things to it. I didn't create my own world until I started to write my triology back in 2015, so 10ish years I guess

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AprilWorldBuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind EXTRA DAYS Day 29: What is your current project? Day 30: How long have you been worldbuilding

The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.

Day 30 #aprilworldbuilders: I don't even quite remember how long I've been building the world of the Living Sword, but the first sparks started at least a few years before I published the first book in 2013.

So I've been thinking of this particular world off an on for about 15 years now.

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Ever since I decided my first homebrew DnD game in 2017 would take place in the kingdom of Tsentrin.

God, those were the days. Days when I didn't see only the gaps in my world...

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I wanna say about 5 years, once I really got into draft 1 of "A Daughter's Hope" and Asloria finally started materializing before my eyes.

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Since ~1998. The first novel I wrote, which cannot see the light of day because it is terrible, was written 2001-2005.

Sanctuary was a small story taking place during big events. I prefer/ need to write stories that take place in/ have big worlds, full of research & experiences.

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I’ve been worldbuilding for about 4 years now, from when I first started work on bring Nixtral to life. It’s been a fun journey so far & I’m excited to keep going for many years!

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For as long as I can remember. I didn't have the word for it as a child, but I've been creating worlds and playing in them with friends since I was a little girl 😊
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Monthly Wrap up.

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Monthly Wrap up

It's been a month.
Book 5 is about to hit the paper edit stage. Excited!
Sales have been.... 🕳️, except for one paperback sale. Not excited!
Only one way, but forward.

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AprilWorldBuilders day 30 how long have you been worldbuilding

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Depends on what you mean. I've been writing since I was 8, so that would be 37 years.
But on any specific world?

Mudlarks has been 18 years, but it's more realism.

Fantasy only about 2yrs.

Current WIP is set in a world I've been kinda building for maybe 10 or more years?

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My worldbuilding started with my #DnD homebrew, so 10 years?

It has nowhere near the craziness of the Forgotten Realms, but Nexus has its fair share of crises.

And an overarching plot. To think my friends/players thought I was joking when I said I had a 10 year plan.

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I've been worldbuilding almost my entire life. At age 7, I created universes in which my favorite characters from film, TV and books could interact. (I didn't know what fanfic or crossovers were back then.) Eventually, I made my own characters, mythologies, languages...

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30. In general? Prolly since i was old enough to play with toys

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How long have you been worldbuilding?

Like, with real effort to record and maintain in general? 2015.

On this setting specifically? Since lockdown. 5 years.

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Gosh, well I've been writing stories since I was a teensy little kid. But I think my first attempts at real *worldbuilding* started around 5th-6th grade. Funnily enough, one of those first attempts was a very rough version of #Atlantis!

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30: How long have you been worldbuilding?

Since 2017, more or less. But anything prior to 2021 has been either deleted or forgotten.

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How long have you been worldbuilding?

I started seriously worldbuilding when I was in high school, but before I had my driver's license, so we'll say I was probably around 14-15. So (dating myself here) that means I've been worldbuilding for over 25 years.

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#AprilWorldbuilders 30: How long have you been worldbuilding?

Forever. And I'm old enough you can take that literally. 😉

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I have been making up worlds and writing stories set in them since I was in 6th grade, so 30+ years.

I started playing DnD and other tabletop RPGs when I was 18 and that really fueled the addiction.

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Herbs and Iron is a WIP cozy romance about a witch returning home after war to rebuild her family business and reclaim the blacksmith she left behind.

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Day 30: I believe that @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social and I have been worldbuilding on the continent of Karnassia since 2013 (at least according to the oldest file date I remember seeing in the old Dropbox folder that we had, long-since purged) (this post makes me feel very old)

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#AprilWorldbuilders 30: How long have you been worldbuilding? Since about 1999. I didn’t consider seriously writing about it until maybe 2015 or so.

30. It started since I was a kid. Whenever my sister & I play dress-up, or "do some acting", we'd come up with different stories & settings, then spend the entire afternoon immerse in our made-up world 😊

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