Essoe's Guides to Writing: Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding is divided into a detailed introduction and 6 comprehensive, easy-to-access dilemmas that I most often see plaguing authors' worldbuilding. It explains how to avoid those dilemmas from the start, and fix them if they're already there. They are:

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  The 6 primary kinds of infodumps

  
  
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  Over-building, not knowing when to stop, adding the wrong details, and misunderstanding the economy of comprehension

  
  
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  Boring readers with unnecessary info, becoming derivative, and being unable to bring the world to life

  
  
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  Maintaining
  consistency through a book or series, missing common
  continuity-breakers, developing unbalanced worlds, and being unable to
  keep track of all the details

  
  
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  Homogenized worlds in structure, government, culture, peoples, and settings, and being unable to find inspiration for the creation of new and marvelous things 

  
  
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  Stale worlds lacking broadening, deepening, and evolution.