World Building 101: My Kingdom for a Plot!
Now that we’ve covered all the basics of building a world (there are, of course, more advanced steps, but since I know I don’t have just writers in the audience, I don’t want to bore everyone), it’s time to put the steps together and draft the plot.
We’ve established:
Setting: Mars. And we’ve researched it thoroughly
Timeframe: 25th century. And we’ve drafted a timeline that’ll keep us on track with significant background details.
Races: Normal human and Psi human. And we know what makes them tick, and what motivates their interactions.
Characters: Well, I’m going to be less specific, from here out, because I certainly don’t want to give away all the details of my books! 
But we’ve established how they fit within their race and society, and what makes them stand out.
How does this all go together? Simple. You’ve set up the core for your society (more advanced steps include technology development and political structure… things glossed over here, to keep from boring everyone, but that I will go into in greater detail when I begin my SF/ Paranormal series of classes for writers, next year), and your character motivations. Now, just drop in a situation (Let’s use a murder), and place your characters in the situation, and voila, you’ve got a basic plot that’s going to be well-fortified by rich background detail. Example:
A series of criminals have been murdered in the underground area known as Pink Alley.
No one who witnessed the crimes is talking, out of fear that they’ll be next.
A young prostitute turns up dead, an apparent innocent victim.
Enter Section Psi investigator, who discovers that the deaths were caused by someone with a very strong Psi ability.
And you see how it can easily progress from there…
That concludes our delve into world-building and how it can ease the creation of a book/series.
