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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Roundtable: World Building for Other Worlds
Description: Today we have another of our roundtables and we’re focusing on one of the hardest things for an author to get right: world building. Because this issue is so complex, I’m doing two world building roundtables, one for writers working on historical fiction and today for writers who are trying to establish place in a location that the reader might not know about, either in the real world or in the speculative one. In this case, how complicated does that speculative world need to be to be truly convincing? Or is simplicity the key, working through implication inst...