When you’re building the world of your plot, you have to wear many hats. You have to see the future in several different iterations, you have to be a number of different characters, and you have to identify consequences sometimes [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Strategic Thinking
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Story Gardening
We’re gardeners, we writers are. We introduce characters that poke up their personalities like tender green shoots from fertile wood pulp (or pixels). Expose them to sunlight and watch them slowly reveal more and more of their makeup. Pelt them [...]
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RoW80: Holla!
Okay, after jumping on the RoW80boat, I ended up too busy bailing bilgewater out of my manuscript to post updates on any sort of regular basis.
If you care, my original goals were something like this:
4000 words per week on the [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Did You Get Married?
Is your story grinding to a halt every time you set fingers to keyboard? Have you found yourself playing minecraft, or suddenly absorbed with facebook games/obsessively tweeting random things about armpit hair? It’s time to play hardball with your story. [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, fixing story problems, for writers, married to bad ideas, Scribbling, storytelling, WIPs gone wild, WIPs gone wrong, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays, writing
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Be The Blockbuster
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if there were some secret formula or magic pill that would guarantee your book would be a blockbuster? Like that movie, [REDACTED] where that guy [REDACTED] and ended up fighting the villains at the top of [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Change Of Venue
The only constant is change. It’s ubiquitous because it’s true. The universe even abides by it in a cosmic sense. So if your characters are wandering around in a world that doesn’t change, guess what?
That’s right, they’re existing in a [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Here Comes Trouble
We’ve all struggled with that character–you know the one–the one that won’t behave according to the plot. Much like the picky eater at the dinner table, none of the scenes you’ve dreamed up in plotting seem to bring out anything [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Rules Of The Road
There’s an adage that says to never start a book with a character going somewhere. It’s right next to the adage that says “all rules are made to be broken” because as soon as someone speaks of this rule in [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Love To Hate ‘Em
We might not want them in our lives, but our worlds wouldn’t be complete without their adversaries. Challenge forces change, and change is growth. Without growth, there is entropy. And entropy is boring.
But for most of us, the last thing [...]
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