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• Character Preparation … Stuff I Don’t Do

  
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  On Monday, our own Mindy Klasky started a series on how she writes a synopsis, which I am dying to read because … uh … I have no idea how I do it. I mean, I do it, I write them, but I don’t know if I do it right. I know I must have my own way of constructing a synopsis because I have never read anyone else’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grinders Guide: Exploring Your Gee-Whiz, Magic Edition

  
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  Why this may sound like a post on writing asexual erotica, it is not. Actually, that post would get me a lot more hits than this one. This post is about something that most writers -- whether amateur or professional -- dont do. Its about exploring the logical consequences of your gee-whiz factor, your sensawunda. ...
  3 weeks ago

• I’m missing something on World Clinic

  
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  I’ve been fixing up the How To Think Sideways website for the past couple weeks; reformatting, relinking and in a couple of cases revising old products from my shop to put on my new shop, and otherwise doing lots of Working Very Hard While Not Writing , which is what I have always done when I’ve hit a snag. I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Excellent Climate/Biome Diagram for Worldbuilders

  
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  Biomes based on latitude and precipitation. A few weeks back on reddit I stumbled across several diagrams from an AP Environmental Sciences textbook by user Apomonomenos.  All of these diagrams do a great job of illustrating various earth science concepts useful to world builders. The illustration I liked best ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Elf in the Kitchen

  
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  Once upon a time, I read a book about an ordinary woman in everyday contemporary society who wakes up to find an elf in her kitchen.  She says, “Hey, what are you?” and he says, “Me?  I’m an elf.”  They proceed to have coffee and chit-chat, as if nothing at all is out of the ordinary.  Now, there’s a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lessons from the Aether: Sanderson and Worldbuilding a Plot

  
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    Tweet of the Day:  Forging a Universe: Worldbuilding Physic s ——- Brandon Sanderson is a master of weaving deep, well thought out worldbuilding into intricate fantasy plots.  While other writers struggle with the question of how much background information to put in their stories, Sanderson makes ...
  4 weeks ago

• Container Universes and Create A World Clinic #wabwm

  
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  After very difficult last two weeks, where I was overhauling the major part of the HowToThinkSideways.com site, it was sheer joy to get back to writing Create A World Clinic . And while I didn’t set the world on fire, I did get 802 words, and the first two sections of the Container Universe chapter done. ...
  4 weeks ago

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