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Where do you start a story? #StoryExposition explained #WritingCommunity #amwriting

In a movie, there’s an exciting launch incident that pushes the viewer straight into things… But when you tell an anecdote to friends, you don’t start your storytelling in the same way, do you? You don’t say: “Pans and lids flying… sounds of crashes, police cars howling in the night. People screaming with foreign accents. Pandemonium. Hot and sticky, I need to get away. I can’t think straight.…

World-building 107: Imaginary Historians

Welcome to the last post on World-building for authors and referees in this series. If you’ve followed along you have now got a fully formed world, replete with details. You know lots about the people, geography and ecology of your world, but now comes the hardest part… attempting to use all that information to enrich your stories and games. (more…)