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RyanĮditing: Dan Henderson, Lyle Lowery, Michael G. WilsonĬontinuity Editors: Matt Goetz, Douglas Seacatĭirector of Publications: Michael G. eventually, you will not need any of these props to make you brave enough.Chief Creative Officer: Matthew D. write because there’s a monster on your back and you need to make it real and separate from your soul. write when people have torn strips off you. write so you don’t curl up in the bottom of a shower and sob. write when a song has made you feel catastrophic. write things when you’ve stayed up so late you are delirious.

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read because at some point you will be so full with the consumption of language you will need to start pouring it back out again. read children’s books to remember about wonder and post-modernists to remember about freedom. read brutal minimalism and extravagant prose. read how romance novels create characters so vivid you want to fuck them and have them be fucked. imprint rhythms and chokeholds and things-that-shoot-up-your-spine into your fingertips. don’t learn from your betters, just inhale them. Have your buddy cop drama be about two demons in hell. Maybe set that stale noir detective story under the sea. Move that dragon age rip off to the wild west. I’ve had stories that grew a lot better just by shifting words or characters.

If you don’t have fun in your world, then you might need a new one. If you have Sven, son of Sven, and Jarl One-Eye, then introducing something called Issh'th'anthiar then that by definition is weird to the world of your characters as well as to the reader.Ībove all, have fun. Stick to a cohesive naming scheme, that way you can introduce foreign concepts just by switching to another type of names.You don’t have to kill your darlings, just make them fit.Start the story even if you’re not sure about the world, it is perfectly fine for the world to be birthed around the story and then hammered into shape in future edits.Your world will change as you write, it’s never finished.Weird dragon sorcerers handling public transport via teleport circles. In a strange world, you need to add familiar routines.Like being a cab river for ghosts in NY city. In a familiar world, you need to add strange concepts.

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If they are, try to work out how to show that they might not know what they are talking about, without saying it straight out.

The characters can be wrong, or biased about the world.

A farmer from hicksville will describe the foreign relations of the USA different than a career diplomat. Remember to show the world from the character’s point of view.If it takes place in a city, don’t bother with the ecology. If your story is not about politics, don’t bother with politics.A lot of cool twists can come from trying to work around what you said five chapters previously.

If the world stands in the way of your story, change the world or the story.

The right words are important, it’s all in the name. Calling magic users ‘smoke eaters’ is more important than the rules that govern their magic. That is what people will remember, not how they work.

The most important thing will be cool names and concepts.

You only need enough world to surround the story and make it internally cohesive, but on the other hand, the world can also make the story grow cooler and better so it’s a balance.

You don’t need half as much world building as you think you do, and if you like me, are a researcher, it can paralyze you.

But like with so many things about writing, everyone do things differently.

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