Note: This is a counterpoint to my previous post, Top-Down Worldbuilding Worksheet. Since planners and pantsers use exceedingly different approaches, I’m assuming you bottom-up folks aren’t reading the previous post, which is why I’m recycling some of it. Please forgive me, all y’all folks who use both approaches (although I’m one of you). Anyway, after speaking with some readers of 101 Worldbuilding Prompts as research for my greatly expanded how-to book Fantasy Worldbuildin

After speaking with some readers of 101 Worldbuilding Prompts as research for my greatly expanded how-to book Fantasy Worldbuilding Workbook, I thought I would put together some worksheets for world builders to keep their ideas straight. These are based around the concept of fantasy functions, which I explore in depth in Worldbuilding for Fantasy Fans and Authors, but should still be useful for those who haven’t gone through all the theories and best practices in that book. I