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Writing Excuses 9.23: World Building Without Breaking Viewpoint

Writing Excuses

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How to Write a Science Fiction Fantasy Story

Getting across the world building without breaking up your story and making it boring is the grand skill of the science fiction fantasy writer. So how do you do it? We all study. One of the first things that I will do is I will treat the discovery of the story as a fun reveal. And then after a certain point, the reader will have enough information to know this one piece. Oh, I am a fish going downstream in a river. But that may not be the whole story I want to tell. The story I may want to tell is the fish's relationship with the other fishes, not the fact that they're fish in water.

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