It’s July—we’re already previous the midway level of the 12 months! Like yearly, July heralds our on-line Worldbuilding Summer time Camp—the right problem to discover a brand new space of your world! We additionally excited to share some World Anvil function updates this month!
Right here’s what’s new within the dev area this month!
🏆 Problem submission enhancements
Wish to participate in a neighborhood problem? Now you may submit your entries from the brand new enhancing modal! Simply click on the trophy button within the backside toolbar to get began:
For extra particulars on this, examine tips on how to submit an article to a problem on Study!
👀 NEW Picture Supervisor — coming quickly!
Try the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the total changelog.
🗓️ July occasions
Summer time Camp is lastly right here! That is one among our yearly worldbuilding occasions; this month, we problem you to reply between 8 and 32 prompts in your world—learn extra and participate right here. Listed below are this month’s occasions!
- 🍨 Summer time Camp: 1 month, 32 prompts… GO! That is our problem this month, and the primary 10 prompts are out already. Examine the problem web page for particulars! Each immediate wave will probably be launched on stream:
- Second immediate wave launch: July fifth (6pm UK/10am Pacific)
- Third immediate wave launch: July twelfth (6pm UK/10am Pacific)
- Closing immediate wave launch: July nineteenth (6pm UK/10am Pacific)
- Stream of Final Probabilities: July twenty sixth (6pm UK/10am Pacific)
- ✨ Neighborhood Day: this month’s World Anvil Neighborhood Day will probably be on July nineteenth! Right here’s the programme:
- 🎓 Sage Seminar: World primers (5pm UK/9am Pacific): Primers introduce new readers to your world, which makes them one of the crucial vital pages you may write! On this month’s seminar, you’ll learn to craft the right primer on your world. Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal (Sages solely).
Observe us on Twitch to study after we go dwell!
🍨 Summer time Camp merch!
What’s higher than doing Summer time Camp? Doing Summer time Camp whereas ingesting from a Summer time Camp mug! Get yours from our retailer right this moment!
📹 YouTube video round-up
Want slightly push to enhance your worldbuilding? Or need some recommendation from an expert worldbuilder? Listed below are our newest YouTube movies:
- Worldbuilding a Fantasy Tradition in 4 Questions: Janet shares a pro-worldbuilder template to shortly perceive a tradition’s values, beliefs, and behaviors in a approach that makes every part fall into place!
- Worldbuilding Exposition Completed Proper: If folks don’t care about your lore, the issue isn’t your worldbuilding—it’s the way you’re delivering it! Listed below are two guidelines that remodel your worldbuilding exposition from lore dump to dynamic storytelling.
- The Energy of Sensory Element in Worldbuilding: Watch this to study sensible methods to create higher immersion with evocative parts that use all 5 (and extra!) senses!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to remain on high of all our newest movies.
🤔 Will sharing worldbuilding on World Anvil harm my probability to historically publish my novel?
We get this query fairly often, and the reply is… no! Actually, in keeping with the Publishing Director at Gollancz, utilizing World Anvil may very well appeal to a standard writer, particularly for those who acquire a following! For those who’re serious about conventional publishing, take a look at the total response the query for particulars.
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
This month’s neighborhood spotlight is among the cutest, bubbliest settings on World Anvil: Ayun Sovos, by Strixxline. Embark on a model new journey in a brilliant fantasy world brimming with artful creatures and resourceful adventurers! Right here’s what Line needed to say about it:
Ayun Sovos is one among my newer initiatives, lovingly crafted with coronary heart in thoughts, and it’s been one among my most rewarding writing experiences in my years-long worldbuilding journey.
I discussed it through the Worldbuilding Awards stream, however that is the world that introduced my spark again as I recovered from all flavors of inventive burnout — and it retains combating that battle with me with each pleasant little element I get to write down or draw. Incomes awards for this world is such a fantastic affirmation that pursuing your bliss is at all times the very best transfer ahead!
Ayun Sovos is a much-needed pocket of brightness in these attention-grabbing occasions, and I’ll be turning to this cozy challenge recurrently for a dose of caprice and pleasure after I want it most. I hope all of its guests get to take that very same delight with them once they cease by!
Ayun Sovos gained the Artist’s Most Stunning World 2025 Awards. So gear up, stuff some snacks in your pack, and uncover the world of Ayun Sovos!
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