Hey guys, new to the worldbuilding scene here. I've been developing my own tabletop game for a little while now, and while it's still very early on in the personal playtesting phase, I've been meaning to write down and expand on the world the game takes place in.
I have a personal Google Doc where I've been collecting my thoughts on the setting, short blurbs about the factions and backstory, and things like that. This week I had my friends make a template of questions I could ask myself about each faction and how it exists in the world. I've been slowly adding to it, and it's been a real help for thinking about things I normally wouldn't have, or help solidify the vague ideas and feelings I have for the factions that are otherwise trapped in my mind.
My next issue is that I don't know how to declutter it and put it into an actual readable format, and not a jumble of ideas and bullet points. I've written some short stories before about existing settings I like and understand, like Warhammer 40,000, but I lack the critical writing skills to be able to create my own standalone world and story.
Do any of you have links to guides or videos on how to improve my writing? I feel like I have snippets of my world's lore floating around my brain and no way to actually put them down so that others can see it, too. I don't want to feed my work into some chat bot and have it barf out some copied slop based on my thoughts, I want to be able to create my world myself so my game isn't bland blank meeples, and I dont feel strong enough to do that yet.
Thank you