My fantasy series started as a challenge in 2009. One of my colleagues challenged me to "win" NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in two weeks. That means "write at least 50,000 words in 14 days. Since I accepted that challenge, a fan challenged me to write fantasy (I usually write science fiction) and another challenged me to write this all with a female main characters.

Oye.

I threw together some working maps for the first book but discovered I needed a better picture when a sea voyage that lasts 21 days in the story spans a distance of about 50 miles on my rough maps. Boats are slow but I can swim faster than that. So ...

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The base is done according to the Atlas Map Style tutorial. It took me four tries but I finally came up with a map I like. I haven't added any of the labels yet, but this is getting close to what I want.