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Worldbuilding for Masochists

Episode 116: Choosing, Presuming, and Decision Fatigue

Nov 22, 2023
54:16

Worldbuilding is great! You get to make all the choices! On the other hand... you have to make all the choices.

"Choose, don't presume" has long been our ethos on this podcast, but does choosing always mean making the weirdest possible choice? Does every choice have to Make A Statement? Does an "anything goes" approach to worldbuilding actually make things harder than setting some boundaries for yourself?

In this episode, we talk about how we decide where to focus our worldbuilding energy, making sure the worldbuilding serves the story (even if that means flavor, not plot!), and how to untangle your worldbuilding when it's perhaps gotten away from you a bit.

 

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