I think I just liked the way it looked and it was surrounded on three sides by water and islands (which I needed lots of.) 😀 How I started was by picking a continent (fantasy novels, for some reason, usually have one super continent as their world to start out.) My inspiration was Greece. *Reference Maps (Atlas, globe, print-outs of real life maps, your favorite fantasy book with a map.) That is actually what I used to color my map.) 🙂 *Markers, colored pencils, or crayons (I was only half-joking about the crayons. METHOD #1 HAND-DRAWN MAP (This is always the first step, even in the following methods) I am no artist, believe me! Here is a step-by-step how I created mine. And don’t worry, you absolutely do not have to be Michelangelo to create a map. I’m going to talk a little about my experience with creating my map for MER, soon to be released in late December, along with other methods of either creating or obtaining your map. (Hey that’s not such a bad idea! Hahaha!) Hell or high-water I was going to have a map for my book, even if it meant handing my two-year-old a paper and crayons, and calling the scribbles my map.
And despite my inhibitions, I dove in head first. When I first started writing my young adult fantasy novel, MER, I was like “A map seems way too difficult.” But I REALLY wanted one. It is also very helpful for the author and the development of their fictional world. An ongoing trend for fiction and fantasy novels is having a map for the reader to follow along with, just after the title page in the book.
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