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World-building for novelists -- No, your characters *aren't* in a play. Part II

Posted 11th December 2011 at 12:28 AM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 14th July 2012 at 06:16 AM by Teresa Edgerton

Part II


Context

Without the context of a story, the conflict, the tensions, and the emotions can fall absolutely flat, confuse the reader, or create the wrong impression. The closer the setting is to the world we and our readers personally inhabit, the more the society that surrounds the story is like our own in time or space, the more we can depend on the reader to know the context and the more things both the writer and the reader can safely take for granted.
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World-building for novelists -- No, your characters *aren't* in a play.

Posted 11th December 2011 at 12:19 AM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 23rd December 2012 at 06:10 AM by Teresa Edgerton

Some of you may recognize parts of what follows from things I have said in discussions on the forums here, or from critiques I have given here or elsewhere, but I am, I think, bringing all of it together for the first time. Though it is principally addressed to fantasy writers, it applies to science fiction, too.

On World-building


Back in the days of my youth, I used to spend a good deal of my time in costume: because I was involved in my local Renaissance and Christmas
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GUNPOWDER and ALCHEMY

Posted 30th September 2011 at 10:56 PM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 14th July 2012 at 03:49 AM by Teresa Edgerton

And now a break from my usual type of post for a little self-promotion:

When the Goblin Moon rises, strange things happen ...

Coffins float down the river, hobgoblins emerge from their dens, alchemists pore over ancient texts in search of the secret of creating life, and the gentleman blackguards known as the Knights of Mezztopholezz practice rituals far exceeding the worst excesses of the Hellfire Club.

Meanwhile one man fights a secret battle against cruelty
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It's All in the Execution (So Beware) Part 2

Posted 30th September 2011 at 08:20 AM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 3rd October 2011 at 10:49 AM by Teresa Edgerton



Part II
We all know that most fantasy and science fiction stories owe their origins to the question “What if ____?” Yet we shouldn’t be content to leave it at that, because it’s a very good question to ask at every single stage of the writing process. “What if, instead of what I had originally planned, my character decided to do this?” “What if, instead of following the obvious course, I choose to examine one of the other possible consequences of this particular set of circumstances?”
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It's All In the Execution (So Beware) Part 1

Posted 30th September 2011 at 08:16 AM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 23rd December 2012 at 06:11 AM by Teresa Edgerton

In spite of the artfully sinister title, this was originally written to encourage new writers. (Of course, old writers need encouraging, too.) I've put it through quite a bit of revision since. I hope that it will be inspiring.

However that might be, this is another one of my long-winded articles that contains more characters than the software allows, and so, perforce, must appear in two parts.

ON ORIGINALITY (WITH SOME ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT OF STYLE)...
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