
16.43: The Narrative Holy Trinity of World, Character, and Plot, with Fonda Lee
Writing Excuses
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The Greenboned Saga - World First, Character First and Plot First
I really love this idea that you gave us about the kelonels, world first. And i'd love to dig into those a little bit and get an example. I cind want to ask about the greenbone saga. You mentioned that idea came to you as world first. Can you give us very quickly kind of a sense of how you developed that? How starting with the world informed the way that you came up with the plot in the characters? Yes. So my initial colonel for the greenboned saga was a jade city. That was, those were the two words. It's the title of the first book, and that's what came tome first.
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