The Beauty of World-Building

And how to begin crafting your own universe

Sam Duffy
ILLUMINATION
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7 min readJun 10, 2020

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Like many others, I grew up enamored with the worlds crafted by world-building authors like J.R.R. Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman. Their worlds and characters helped shape me into who I am today and helped inspire me to write. The worlds they created were ones…

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Sam Duffy
ILLUMINATION

I am a queer writer studying English at Berkeley. In my free time, I write about what I'm most passionate for: literature, media, and the writing process.