![]() The General Atmosphere. We almost always see Hogsmeade buried under snowfall. Place your city somewhere concrete and interesting. Maybe your city is slimy and smelly because it’s built around belching bog waters or maybe it’s a prosperous fishing village built along the ocean. ![]() Maybe it’s wedged in a cavern behind a crashing waterfall, or built on stilts along a treacherous cliff. Your city could be in the middle of a forest, or have a huge weeping willow in the middle of the town square. Or it’s made of boats interconnected across a lake. Maybe your city is built up (or under) a mountain. Come up with a sentence that will describe your city in a nutshell. Find a few striking, significant details that define your city and make it unique from any other in your story. Gondor is built up a mountain Rohan has its horses. For instance, as I mentioned above, Hogsmeade is a snowy city of cottages and shops that resemble a Christmas Card. So, how do you go about creating one such (or many such) cities for your own fantasy novel?ĭecide on a few significant, tactile, defining features. You can literally smell the honeysuckle and the pies cooling on windowsills.įantasy villages, towns, and cities are scrumptious to read about, they’re visceral and eye candy and exciting. You can see the stone buildings climbing up the mountainside of Gondor, you can see the shifting grass plains of Rohan, can picture the Shire with its farms and flowers and so many green hillocks punctuated with round front doors. ![]() Closing your eyes, you can see the snow-capped cottages of Hogsmeade that look like illustrations on Christmas cards you can see the colorful and extraordinary shops of Diagon Alley, cluttered with stacks of cauldrons, barrels of beetle’s eyes, hooting owls in ironwork cages shoppers in ankle-length Wizard robes. Creating a city from scratch can be an intimidating task for a fantasy writer - you want your city to feel like a living, breathing place, with its own personality, elements of fun and fantasy, and believable enough and descriptive enough that the reader can imagine themselves plunked down into the middle of it.Ĭonsider some of the best, most vividly written cities in fiction. ![]()
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