Setting and format

Setting

To imagine a fantastic world, the first thing you have to choose is the setting. There is a tendency to believe that all fantasy stories must have medieval knights and castles, dragons, elves, and dwarves. But there are lots of types of worlds in movies, novels, TV series, and video games. These are examples of different stories you can choose to start creating your world. Feel free to combine them and add your personal ideas. Imagination knows no limits!

• Fairytales. Magic, fairies, and wonderful creatures in a world of beautiful gardens and ancient woods.
• Science-fiction. Interstellar flights, futuristic cities, time-travelling, robots, aliens, dinosaurs... Cool stuff! 
• Alternate reality. What if our world were a little different? What if there were magic, demons, robots, or anything you could imagine? 
• Space Western. Spaceships, desert planets, and cowboys! 
• Post-apocalyptical stories. Civilization has collapsed. Now the streets are empty and only a few humans have survived.
• Ancient fantasy. It's easy. Instead of dragons, medieval knights, and castles, try to imagine an ancient world ruled by angry gods and full of mysteries, gigantic pyramids and marble columns.
• Totally crazy stuff. Combine anything that comes to your mind to create the weirdest world possible.
• Fantasy overload! A story set in a galactic empire full of planets where civilization has collapsed due to a space-time crisis that have brought dinosaurs back to life. People are now ruled by tyranic overlords that live in castles and ride mechanical dragons. Most technological advances have been forgotten and people have started to worship the ancient gods and practice magic again. And there's more: a malignant race of aliens have reached the empire and threatens to open the gates of the Underworld and release the hordes of demons trapped inside. Only the fairy queens can stop the invasion. 

Short example

The Realm of Nimue is an ancient world orbiting a yellow sun within the constellation of Aquarius. Diverse magical civilizations dominate most of its islands and underwater kingdoms, although there are many wilde tribes as well. In the Realm of Nimue, people are generally ruled by kings and queens who live in marble and wooden palaces and are assisted by their court wizards and the priests of the seven gods. They fight by sword and shield, and their weapons and armors are made of bronze and the mythical orichalcum, extracted from the sunken lands of the Southern moors. Nimueans still make use of magic and sacred rituals to forge their weapons and build their houses and temples. Although there are lots of regional variations, most of Nimue's islands have a milde climate, while a few lands to the west and the islands in the Great Sea have tropical climate. However, a strange shadow coming from the north has fallen upon the green lands, spoiling the soil and devastating the forests. 

Format

Now that you have chosen the setting of your world, you need to choose were to start to build it. You can print your writings out and create some sort of book or printed encyclopedia or keep them online and create a blog or a wiki. In any case, make sure you keep a safe copy of your work.