Preptober Step 4: The Foundations of World-Building
Get your tools out, writers. We're building a whole fictional world today!
World-building is an important element of writing a story.
I just finished an incredible developmental edit on a fantasy novel and it had terrific world-building–lore, myths, history, government, different species, and more. It was so well-layered that I genuinely lost myself in the story. I didn’t want it to end.
We need to create a world for readers t…
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