Ground for Inspiration

Here is a trove of natural landscape scenes, each one with unique potential to enrich storytelling, provide a memorable adventure game setting, evoke artistic interpretation, or support inspiring travel.  Each scene description includes detailed boots-on-the-ground observations of a distinctive landscape feature and demonstrates how earth science perspectives can lend greater narrative potential.  You can find descriptions by browsing through any of these menus: ALL SCENES (listed by title), ENVIRONMENTS, ELEVATION LEVELS, and THEMES. 

for writers

for artists

for game masters

for visual storytellers

for educators

for travelers

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
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Kettle Chain (new scene)

These small lakes are linked in a series by narrow channels that wind between soil banks and expanses of water lilies.  Exploration by boat is easy with no perceptible current, but there is nowhere to hide in making a lake crossing, while the close-bounded channels offer plenty chance of ambush.  What might have drifted ashore to to hide among the lilies?

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News Blog Added

​We've added a blog page to the Ground for Inspiration website, sharing news on our activities related to natural landscapes and storytelling.  Look there for site work in progress, other types of initiatives, and our upcoming Con attendances, panels, and seminars.  Your comments on posts are welcome, moderated weekly for display.

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Interested in a systematic look at landscapes and storytelling? 

Read more on natural landscapes and their many narrative opportunities, from your Ground for Inspiration host!  Chapters include:
     Rivers
     Deserts
     Wooded Lowlands
     Mountains
     Glaciers
     Tundra
     Karst Landscapes
     Caves
     Volcanic Landscapes
     Shorelines
     Continent-Scale World Building

Order from McFarland Press    mcfarlandbooks.com/product/landscapes-for-writers-and-game-masters/
    Also available from various online booksellers in print, Kindle and Nook editions.  
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