World-building the history of a place

The Writing Excuses guys have posted another good podcast: this one on world-building a history. I wanted to add a few comments. You’ll notice that a lot of the blurbs for my novel mention my world-building, so I guess it’s a strength in my writing. However, I don’t write huge world building documents in the pre-draft

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More Great Questions for Story Development: Governments

Part of my model of the creative process is that it’s driven by questions. We come up with creative solutions in response to a problem. The problem triggers the process. Let me give an example. Let’s say I have a character named Bill who lives out in space salvaging parts of space ships and other things.

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