The group talks about the importance of making new worlds make sense and discusses just how much worldbuilding a reader can digest all at once. They also caution against the extreme approaches of going into a story willy-nilly versus the endless rabbit hole of what-if questions.

Anne reminds us that worldbuilding is not just for fantasy stories, and then unsuccessfully tries to get Jess and Tracey to fight over preferred writing methods.   

 

QUOTE: "Create: Verb. The act of banging your head on your desk until something interesting pops out." – Currently Anonymous

 

LINKS:

Brandon Sanderson

Neal Shusterman

 

CREDITS: This episode of Your Writing Does Not Suck was recorded and edited by Anne M. Belen.