Mapping Your World and Creating a Factsheet
With only twelve days before Nanowrimo start, there isn't much time to finish building your world and planning your novel, so you have to focus on the important details. Creating a map for your world--anywhere from a basic map establishing cities and borders to a complete road map--and a fact sheet to bring together all your knowledge of the world you'll be writing your novel in is a great way to figure out what you need to know to begin your novel without hours of hard labour. The fact sheet also provides you with a place to put notes when you discover new things about your world. Today I'm going to walk you through the process of creating a bare-bones world with these tools. Mapping Mapping is incredibly easy, though…