How are you using your world?

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

Is anyone writing a series or multiple books set in the same world? Or anyone creating an RPG campaign world?

Are you writing in a different setting from modern Earth? Or modern Earth?

Does anyone have trouble creating places like cities, towns or villages where the action in your story takes place? Have any trouble describing these places because you have never lived where your story is set, in Medieval Europe or in a SF setting with aliens and cool spacecraft?

I'm asking because I have an idea for a description/setting sort of exercise project for creating places that you will use a lot and that need to be full of life and colour. (I have a capital city that a lot of things take place in).

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[mythrana.livejournal.com]

I am working on a series of books set in the same world which I created. Most of my writing is medieval style. It has several countries and for each one I created an information page so I can keep track of what I have created there. I also have a rough map so I know where all my major cities and sites of significance are. On the lands pages I include things like building descriptions, terrain, what goods the area is known for, which characters originate from there, as well as what religion they use and what other races or creatures are native to the land. A lot of my stories take place in castles or the countryside and wilderness so I do not do much with cities but I am working in that direction.