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First Draft - Ben Winters

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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I Love World Building

I love world building. I think it's the funniest term. Like literary art it's so arrogant. It's, i guess i'm just world building this afternoon. Once you've created the golden state and all its rules are up to me, then there's no wrong answer. But like us, the once you have the basic premise of the story that's going to be set in some sort of either a in an alternate version of our reality or an entirely invented reality, it's going to require you, as you go, to figure out how that world works and what it feels like. Ando, i wonder, like that feels sort of loose and squishy, like the

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