... for the next story-worthy event felt like bringing the world to a screeching halt for no reason. Also, it would give Kayla time to learn a lot, both about magic and about how the world works. This would give her more options for action (which could be good), ...
Search again:... a public service announcement: the Worldshaper's podcast which did an interview with me a few months back is ... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edwardwillett/shapers-of-worlds-volume-ii The authors involved will be people who were interviewed in ...
Search again:... story are the ones they really want to patch? What bits of worldbuilding are most annoyingly incomplete or unexplained? Starting with ...
Search again:... the last week to apply for the Odyssey Workshop class on worldbuilding that I will be teaching in January. The sign-up page is at https://odysseyworkshop.org/worldbuilding.html; there are also some posts at ... I had a lovely long interview with Edward Willett at the Worldshapers Podcast, which is now live at ...
Search again:... hitherto unknown and unusually creative aspects of the world and culture … and that character is only going to be in the story for ...
Search again:... histories or treatises on the politics of their invented worlds, or provide “creation myths” that the reader doesn’t have the ... during the main story using flashbacks or plain old worldbuilding. They don’t need to be in a prologue where they slow down the ...
Search again:... things are happening. The first is the actual physical world that the characters inhabit – the external world in which characters see things, hear things, do things. Unless you’re ...
Search again:... letters,” “to find out more about this fascinating new world and to get his school supplies,” “to get on the Hogwarts Express,” ...
Search again:... perspective? What does that tell the reader about this world? If I mention a baseball, I don’t have to describe it in detail, ... the plot, for characterization, for setting a mood, for worldbuilding, for thematic reasons. Second, what details about this ...
Search again:... joy of writing, for them, is watching the characters, the world, the story materialize in front of them, like the twilight flowing from ... for instance, work best when I have a large chunk of the worldbuilding and/or backstory laid down early. I know that whatever I have ...
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