... says that the protagonist must “descend into the underworld to receive knowledge,” the writer of a story set in present-day spends ... that the central character has to “descend into the underworld,” they don’t mean that every main character has to end up underground ...
Search again:... fit on Twitter…) Another wants you to start with the worldbuilding; another with the plot. How different methods arrive at an ... into characterization (or plot, or the history of the world, or the thematic connections, or…), sort of like zooming in on a ...
Search again:... a child; someone from another country, class, culture, or world; someone who has been isolated, imprisoned, or stranded on a desert ...
Search again:... trying to sell. Few writers who set stories in the real world seem to have this difficulty. I think the difference comes from the ... it is all invented), whereas the writers who use real-world settings/history/etc. have an equally subconscious awareness that at ...
Search again:... free,” though. At the very least, nobody shows up in the world with a natural gift for typing. Yes, typing. Skills come in two ... idea development, action, viewpoint, style, setting, worldbuilding, etc. These are the areas people are usually thinking of when ...
Search again:... He assumes that the way he has been taught to see the world is not merely right and proper, but as inevitable as the law of gravity. ...
Search again:... one thing I was willing to write out was the worldbuilding/backstory—mostly the history, both personal and ... and Famous Imposters” and “Technology in the Ancient World,” and of course “Practical Blacksmithing.” Sometimes, those ...
Search again:... a query-letter. The author can’t ramble on about the worldbuilding, or the cool backstory that isn’t actually the plot of the ...
Search again:... how could they improve technology in a medieval fantasy world?”), how do you research it? .--Alpakka Researching for fiction ... not help them much. And if you are making up a medieval-world-with-magic that you want to look realistic, you need to know where it’s ...
Search again:... to overwhelm my readers with too much information because worldbuilding, I’ve been giving way too little re: scene ... gets boring. And it is usually much easier to cut back on worldbuilding and description than it is to put it in. So perhaps worrying less ...
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