... fiction, unless it’s in a story that’s set in a real-world city that the writer happens to love and have a feel for. Even with a ... phenomenal restaurants (ethnic, fusion, traditional…world cuisine, sort of). In Chicago, the first place we stop is for the hot ...
Search again:... everything else. Because while characterization, plot, and worldbuilding are important to all stories, the balance among them does not ... yes, in many (though not all) cases, doing justice to the worldbuilding, the idea, and the extrapolation may not leave enough room for ...
Search again:... focus on one type of illusion-consistency (usually the worldbuilding or characterization) and forget that the plot, the prose, the ... other). Writers will throw in really cool, well-worked-out worldbuilding details without stopping to think about how their characters ...
Search again:... paper; these are the rules that most people in the adult world, from business to science to politics, are expected to have at least some ...
Search again:... perfectly ordinary children in the real, familiar world; as they move from the familiar to the fantastically unfamiliar, so does ...
Search again:... the theme of the story; expand the scope of the world beyond the a narrowly focused storyline or put human faces and feelings ... on bringing back the magical doohicky from the End of the World. I want the hero to get married at the end, so I'll need a romantic ...
Search again:... got you interested was the really neat backstory and/or worldbuilding that you did, or the nifty looped-and-braided structure you came ...
Search again:... the lobby, and a fascinating panel on politics in fantasy worlds (which did not go off topic into real world politics, despite it being an election year). The topics and the people ...
Search again:... wizard mentor, to castles, secret passages, saving-the-world, magic swords, prophecy.... (I have remarked on more than one occasion ... and that belongs hands down to Terry Pratchett and his Discworld books. I’d like at least one slot for modern urban fantasy, but the ...
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