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Episode 6: An Interlude with Spreadsheets (with guest star Jenn Lyons!)

Worldbuilding for Masochists

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How to Write a Fantasy Book

Rowanna: It's more like you should explain as little of it as possible and just trust the reader to understand things by implication. Jen: I've heard my editor leave margin comments saying like please can you explain this so maybe i need to  it's a difficult balance. Rowanna: Any places that you push or poke or make an active choice for have a domino effect. She says organization is pretty important, especially if you're writing world building in your fantasy books. Jennifer: If you don't have some of this stuff in there then you are probably going to default to societal assumptions about your world.

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