And by ‘everything’, I really do mean everything. To craft a believable dystopian world, you need to know everything about your world. And that means your dystopian world absolutely must be believable and as realistically portrayed as possible. Of course, it’s unlikely to happen, but the possibility must be there one of the most important things with a dystopia is how it interacts with the real world. Dystopian fiction usually has a dark gritty tone and a strong social message, where the dystopian world acts as a warning of what could happen in real life. Most commonly, a dystopia reveals how a societal system that was originally intended to improve people’s lives has actually created oppressive circumstances. There’s nothing worse than a great plot being let down by holes and contradictions in the world building.īy definition, a dystopia is a frightening society. It’s often the case that only after I’ve spent a few weeks (at least) mulling over possible ideas for the basis of my dystopian society, and delving into all the minute details of it, do I realise whether it is viable or not to set a story in that world. A lot of work goes into crafting a believable dystopian world, and before I even begin writing the first chapter, I spend days researching and jotting down ideas. As a writer of dystopian fiction, I often get asked: “How do you create a dystopian society?” or “How do you make such a world seem believable?” And those are excellent questions.
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