: Re: How can I effectively research for a high-fantasy setting? When you write in a modern day setting, you research the culture, climate, location and history of that setting. You can do the same

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When making up a fictional story setting, there is always something that you have seen or read somewhere else that led to inspiring you for making that place up.
The points that you have discussed are true. If you want inspiration, you need to look somewhere for ideas. You might not take everything. Maybe you like the scenery someone has described, but their culture seems boring to you. You might like another culture described by someone else.

Make points of what interests you. Assemble them together. Put in your own imagination. Make a mix of other's and your ideas.
That's the beauty of fiction. There is no wrong as long as it is well explained.

And what you said about plot holes is true, but once you write the first draft, you can always get a few test readers to read your writing and point out what seems off to them. In that way, you can keep filling up the holes until there are no more left. :)

(I'll always suggest to let someone else test read your work instead of doing it yourself, because you rarely find the blunders that you have made in your work, as your brain has made up excuses for them to be correct already.)

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