March is here, and we’re so HYPED for Worldbuilding Con… and much more! Here’s everything you need to know about our latest developments and upcoming events.
🪐 Worldbuilding Con is here!
Write it in your diary, beautiful beans: on Sat 15th & Sun 16th March, Worldbuilding Con is LIVE!
This epic free worldbuilding event brings together best-selling, award-winning, and veteran worldbuilders and storytellers for an INCREDIBLE weekend of Worldbuilding Advice and inspiration!
- Learn about characters that change the world with Dragonlance creator Tracy Hickman, and New York Times Bestseller Gail Carriger.
- Get advice on worldbuilding cities from the author of the Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch) and GM sensation B. Dave Walters.
- Dive into more topics, like Gods of your World, Naming things, Worldbuilding while Neurodivergent, and Cozy Fantasy (with Legends and Lattes author Travis Baldree! *Squee*!)
- Don’t miss the keynote speech from award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal!
Click here to get notified when we go live on YouTube, and sign up for email reminders here!
As always, our team has been busy improving World Anvil this month!
🙌 New community portal
The global community stream is now more accessible than ever from anywhere on World Anvil! Just click the new Community option in the top menu bar to see what your fellow Anvilites are sharing. It also includes features articles from other Anvilites to inspire you and the latest feature suggestions so you can get involved in the development of World Anvil! Read more about this update.
🧙♂️ Get started wizard
To help new users better understand the basics of World Anvil, we have added a new interactive wizard to get you started! If you joined World Anvil very recently, you’ll see it at the bottom right corner, and it will go away as soon as you finish all the basics steps. Learn more about the wizard!
💖 Spread some love… without reloading!
The like button at the bottom of all articles has been updated! Now, when you like it, the page won’t reload. Go to the new Community portal, click the Discovery tab, and find some articles to spread the love to!
Check out the Changelog page on World Anvil for the full changelog.
🗓️ March events
We have some awesome events this month, to inspire you and help you achieve your goals!
- 🏆 5th Worldbuilding Awards: Who’s flexing the best Worldbuilding on World Anvil? YOU DECIDE. Voting for round 2 of the 5th World Anvil Worldbuilding awards (a.k.a. WAWA!) will open on 8th March. Use your democratic right to choose YOUR winner (and get inspired by some gorgeous worldbuilding)! Check the event page for details.
- 🤩 Worldbuilding Con: on the 15th and 16th, join us live on YouTube to get free advice from some of the best writers and GMs on the planet, including Tracy Hickman, Ed Greenwood, and Mary Robinette Kowal! Click here for more information.
Follow us on Twitch to learn when we go live!
🙌 How to build a community on Discord
Looking to create a community around your worlds? This is a great way to keep your fans engages with your world and make people excited for your work! World Anvil has some integration tools with Discord, so here’s how you can take advantage of Discord for your community.
🌟 Community highlight
Ever tried interactive fiction? Well, this month, we’re excited to feature Wake Up!, the first chapter of a new interactive solo adventure written by Catoblepon! Here’s what they had to say about it!
Worldbuilding has been a hobby of mine where I’ve been enjoying trying new things and learning. Until Vaelis Arin, I stayed in the typical fantasy wiki style, but I wanted to try something more interactive and World Anvil has a great range of tools for readers to interact with what they are reading. It’s more of a slow project but it’s great for taking a break from more wiki-style articles.
Over the years, I’ve learnt a lot from World Anvil and it’s community about worldbuilding and other things related to creating, and with this project I expect nothing else than to learn even more.
Ready to embark into a new adventure on a strange yet familiar land? Check out the Wake up! now!
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