PPP3 - How to Build a Fictional World by Kate Messner

Kate Messner has done a short animated video for TED-Ed which briefly goes over some key questions writers should be asking themselves when they're aiming to go about world-building for stories. I think it's important to be aware of these questions and try to answer as many as possible when writing. I often find myself getting caught up in a specific character or place in a story when really I should be concentrating more on an over-arcing storyline and the details of why the story is how it is.

Some questions that popped up during the video:

- Start with a basic place in Time. Where & When is the story?
- Timeline. What made the world the way it is now?
- Details. What rules/laws are in place? (Physics, Societal)
- Government? Who has power? Who doesn't? Hierarchy? Religion?
- Culture? What do they eat, the weather?
- Technology? Resources?