Category: World-building
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What fiction writers can learn from video games
After several months of abstaining, I spent the better part of this Sunday playing video games. It’s not like I don’t have anything I should be doing—my to-do list is neverending. But time you enjoyed wasting isn’t wasted, or however the saying goes, right?Still, I wanted to make myself feel better about “wasting” my Sunday,…
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How to Subtly Introduce a Magic System – Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
One of the most impressive things about Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the way she introduces the magic system of her world. She develops her readers’ understanding of her story’s magic in a way that feels suspenseful, subtle, and never overwhelming.It’s tough to give the reader enough information to understand the world…