... protagonists; I can only think of one or two World War II fantasies that involve kings, presidents, or prime ministers. All ... or keeping the soufflé from falling. This gives you a world in which, to the people living in it, magic is as utterly ordinary as ...
Search again:... 2) you can limit the gods' ability to affect the world directly (Lois Bujold's Chalion books came up several times as an ...
Search again:... set in the future, the past, or some totally sideways world populated solely by centipedes. Authors, editors, and readers all have a worldview, and their worldview is inevitably shaped by their individual and ...
Search again:... And the worst of it is, it’s unnecessary. The writer’s worldview – what the writer believes, deep in their soul, about how the world works; how people work; what’s right, what’s wrong; what’s ...
Search again:... have to explain.) For those who do want to get into the world of professional writing ... I’ll talk more about that next week. ...
Search again:... have a world I’ve fallen in love with but I’m afraid of putting out a story in my favorite world too early and having it not sell well because I haven’t gained some ... story. A writer who is truly obsessed with a story (or a world, or a character, or an idea) probably won’t have much luck writing ...
Search again:... to steal a dragon’s egg. Similarly, if dragons in this world are r-strategy reproducers – if they lay hundreds of eggs, like frogs, ...
Search again:... stuff up, yes?” In fiction, the key thing about the worldbuilding is that the writer makes it plausible over the course of the ... their plot falls apart. A writer who usually starts with world-building doesn’t have those constraints. There’s also the question ...
Search again:... is unobtainable in this imperfect world, and high quality is not achieved by ...
Search again:... sense of wonder and appreciation with which they view the world. It is, in fact, entirely possible to write a story that has no main ...
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