User blog:Frozen Scorpio/The EQuartz Guide to: World-Building

When designing a world for your characters to exist in, it's very easy to not focus on the world and create only one single place for them to exist. This is something I've seen many times, to varying degrees of success. Today, I am here to help educate any interested readers on the importance of world-building.

The Central Area
The Central Area is a term I have created for the main location of the world, where a majority of the plot takes place.This could be any location, whether a small suburb or an expansive city. Many writers rely on this alone as the entire setting, and although it's not inherently a bad thing, it is at times a sign of laziness, as some creators never really make any other locations other than this. As with all locations, it's good to develop the Central Area into being more than just a backdrop, but rather do something with the location (if it's a city, perhaps have characters getting lost in the grand expanse of it all, eventually ending up in some kind of slum area,) as well as evolve it with the passing events that take place in your story.

Secondary Locations
Secondary Locations are generally the land around the Central Area. These are smaller areas that, although not appear much, are still an important aspect to think about. With these, developing is not as important as the Central Area, but is still nifty for a narrative perspective.

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