People who aren’t like you
... even if the writer is working in a completely imaginary world with a made-up history and culture. What with all those problems, it ...
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A Stake Through the Heart
... I have what I think is an interesting world, and a set of characters I like. I have some cool incidents and events. I ...
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... this goddess, and she takes a vacation to the mortal world as a cat and meets this girl and…and…and they have ... where the goddess left the Etherial Realm for the mortal world, and she knew exactly what happened when the goddess-cat met the ... France, or modern-day Canada), or in a completely invented world (past, present, or future). The kinds of problems that could occur, which ...
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... I can think of are in Terry Pratchett’s early Discworld books, especially The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic. Or the ... mean-spirited mockery – Pratchett’s later Discworld books fall somewhere in this spectrum, and I don’t see how anyone could ...
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... to remember to spend enough time on the background and worldbuilding; I don’t seem to be able to get started until I have a solid feel for the world and its culture and history, as well as the more immediate background of ...
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... liking. It’s about doing. There is no motivation in the world that is going to make writing quick and easy and painless, each and every ...
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... a journey may be a Genghis Khan who drastically alters the world around him without apparently changing much himself, or she may be an ... a new home without apparently having a large impact on the world, or he may be a Ghandi whose life-changing journeys to England and South ...
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... write realistic antagonists. And if it has a little real-world application as well, so much the better, I say. ...
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... a realistic-sounding but still-comprehensible imaginary world. The first common mistake, especially for science fiction writers, is to ... "And him born with a silver spoon in his mouth! What's the world coming to?" "You hadn't heard? I thought it was the talk of the ...
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... Some look at what’s going on in their story-world – the politics, the natural disasters, the culture clashes – find ...
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