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Building a believable fantasy map

Exolore: facts-based fictional worldbuilding

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What Elements Should Be Included on a Map?

The first thing i ask for clients to do is write out a list of all the names. I often cant read the handwriting, and i get things misspelled because i read em rong or something. A lot of features that often lack names, like rivers, oceans, forests,. which they don't have to have names, but it's something that writers don't often think about. What is the name of this whole continent? Do you want a title on your map, or is it just cn be blank, like the wel time books? Again, i we kep coming back to this is still fresh in my mind. At's really powerful. Absolutely.

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