Get graph paper and a pen ready. You might say, "I want to erase", but you can't if you follow this! Okay? Good.
Draw some dots, some in circles, some not. Name the dots. The ones not in a circle are towns and villages, the others are cities.
Draw squiggly lines that snake around them all. A few of them might go through towns or cities. Name the lines. These are rivers. You can make one or multiple gather into a circle (a lake) somewhere on the map.
Add upside-down Vs in little clusters and name them. These are mountains. Make some more rivers that start in the mountains.
Draw forests which could be little circles, trees, or anything on the map. Name the forest.
Now that you have natural stuff and towns, add the borders to the nation(s) on your map. Name your nation or nations and draw and name a star (a capital city). In olden times, borders were natural things like lakes or mountains.
Add the shoreline (optional) and islands.
Add other stuff like dams, walls, trade routes, and ruins of old things.
Clean up the map. Any stray lines or messed-up things can be changed. Name everything that is unnamed, and voila! You have it!
Finished.
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