Worldbuilding: From Small Towns to Entire Universes (The Million Dollar Writing Series) by Kevin J. Anderson

Author:Kevin J. Anderson [Anderson, Kevin J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Writing instruction, non-fiction, writing craft
Publisher: WordFire Press
Published: 2015-10-18T22:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

Is Your World Finished?

I hope I’ve given you a lot to think about in this book, a pile of kindling to start your imagination on fire.

Most users of a How-To book come looking for answers, and I’m afraid I’ve provided mostly pages and pages of questions. But that’s the point: questions. You have to ask the questions, a lot of them, because the answers you come up with will form the very foundation of the world in which your story is set.

Let me reiterate my admonition from the previous section, though: DON’T INCLUDE EVERYTHING.

Just because I’ve listed a hundred questions, your story doesn’t require answers for all of them. You don’t need to know every single thing, if it doesn’t affect your story—and the reader certainly doesn’t know (and it probably isn’t interested in), every last detail from the beginning of the world.

Asking those questions, though, is like adding creative fertilizer. When you work with all those ingredients and build your world, your story and characters will naturally blossom from it.

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