... provide lots of opportunity for both characterization and worldbuilding. The SF colony planet that celebrates Crash Landing Day ... around holidays also make for good characterization and worldbuilding fodder. Snowflake-shaped sugar cookies baked annually at ... wine can tell readers something about both person and world, if only that there is some holiday that most people are participating in ...
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Search again:... need to learn...almost anything, really, from saving the world to finding their lost library book to reconciling with an estranged ... to it. Other writers start with a plot (“saving the world” is a perennial favorite), which then shapes the characters, especially ...
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Search again:... are spilling over into the Dursleys' “normal” world. It’s an unusual way to do a just-after opening – seen through the ...
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