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Steven Savage

Articles
- A way with worlds: 01 - Your Main Character
- A way with worlds: 02 - It is the little things that count
- A way with worlds: 03 - In the beginning . . . there was a lot of planning
- A way with worlds: 04 - Intelligent life and culture
- A way with worlds: 05 - Magic and Technology
- A way with worlds: 06 - Pyramids of Power
- A way with worlds: 07 - Getting a Vision
- A way with worlds: 08 - Your Worlds are in Danger!
- A way with worlds: 09 - Retcon as Continuity
- A way with worlds: 10 - The Fanfic Rebellion!
- A way with worlds: 11 - Attitude
- A way with worlds: 12 - Finding Inspiration
- A way with worlds: 13 - Writing religion in your continuity
- A way with worlds: 14 - Creating new religions
- A way with worlds: 15 - Timeline-Based Writing
- A way with worlds: 16 - Yin and Yang: Utopia Dystopie Cornucopia
- A way with worlds: 17 - SEX: A completely boring discussion
- A way with worlds: 18 - Putting it all together: Xai
- A way with worlds: 19 - World View: Evolving with Alicia Ashby
- A way with worlds: 20 - Yin and Yang: The Deadly Hero
- A way with worlds: 21 - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed
- A way with worlds: 22 - The Paradox of the Badass
- A way with worlds: 23 - The Persecution Rests
- A way with worlds: 24 - Service, Service!
- A way with worlds: 25 - Crime and Punishment (and a lot of other stuff)
- A way with worlds: 26 - More Crime and Punishment
- A way with worlds: 27 - Yin and Yang: Self-Serving Self-Sacrifice
- A way with worlds: 28 - Timeline-Based Writing: The Critical Axis
- A way with worlds: 29 - Why are we doing this?
- A way with worlds: 30 - Cycles of Conflict
- A way with worlds: 31 - Losing the Race
- A way with worlds: 32 - Yin and Yang: Knowledge and Ignorance
- A way with worlds: 33 - Yin and Yang: Subjectivity and Objectivity
- A way with worlds: 34 - The Odds
- A way with worlds: 35 - Normalcy
- A way with worlds: 36 - The March
- A way with worlds: 37 - God, Darwin, History
- A way with worlds: 38 - Parallel Earths
- A way with worlds: 39 - Technology and Terminology
- A way with worlds: 40 - Communicating Your World
- A way with worlds: 41 - Playing God
- A way with worlds: 42 - Without Words
- A way with worlds: 43 - TMI
- A way with worlds: 44 - The Drought
- A way with worlds: 45 - Aslan Meets His Match: Theme versus Setting
- A way with worlds: 46 - Dark Mary Sue
- A way with worlds: 47 - The Realism Factor
- A way with worlds: 48 - Apocalypse How
A way with worlds: 44 - The Drought
by Steven Savage of Seventh Sanctum
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I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR DETAIL!
Then you're not being a writer.

 

I DON'T KNOW THESE DETAILS!
Then you're not being a writer or a worldbuilder.

 

SUMMARY:
Good writing, good world-building and world-exploring, means having the right amount of detail for your readers to understand and enjoy your story. Anything else diminishes what you do.

As an additional note, when working on describing your world and putting description in your story, don't try to compensate for either TMI or too little description. You'll only skew your writing. Write with the idea of communicating and telling a story in mind.

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The complete works are archived at the Way With Worlds archive.
A German translation is in the works at Christian Spliess's Page

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