Hi Peeps,

I'm Becka from the UK.

I'm intimidated by mapping so I joined a while back to learn more then just never said anything. (I even forgot I had an account until I tried to join X-D ).

I write fantasy stories and I'm trying to create maps for several of my worlds. I'm not so concerned about the technical/artistic side of mapping - that's just a thing that takes practice and there are many good tutorials on here - but I get nervous about the physical geography side of it and get positively stressed when it comes to map projections and understanding how to represent different sizes of landmass correctly in 2D for a world map and worry I'm going to make things too big, too small or the wrong shape so I never start.

Part of me says start with a regional map but then I'm like "how can I work out my climate for said place if I don't know where and how big everything else is?"

Becka