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Use Descriptive Names
- Name alien plants and animals with descriptive, immediate names to convey function or feel quickly.
- Use compact names like "bark melon" to signal otherness without long exposition.
Pick Cool Then Rationalize
- Decide whether you'll follow realistic evolutionary biology or start with what looks cool and justify it later.
- If you pick cool first, then work backwards to explain it plausibly for your story's genre.
Making Giant Crabs Believable
- Brandon wanted giant crustaceans in Way of Kings and lowered planetary gravity to make them plausible.
- He then tied magical reasons into the biology to create a cohesive fantasy ecology.