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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/28762
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In the past I never had the urge to write, except for poetry, which has always helped me to deal with my emotions. Lately, I have done a lot of world building. Rarely with the intention of writing a story. I just ask myself something like, "what would happen, if our lifespan was dramatically longer?" and then I keep returning to that question and refining the world I have imagined. After months something very strange happens. I get the feeling that I have to write a story in that world, or else it will be... deserted? But I don't have any exciting stories in my mind. Only perhaps some social conflicts, catastrophic events and such.

Are you familiar with this feeling? How do you respond to it? Just wait until the story emerges from the elements and conflicts of the world? Just write whatever comes to your mind?

I can not draw from my experience as a poet here, because I write poetry out of phsychological need particularly when I am depressed.

I am not even sure if this question isn't too opinion based too subjective or too localised.

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