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Not really. "Worldbuilding" is much broader term than the question or most answers seem to assume. I ass-u-me that what is actually intended is to avoid doing any explicit exposition on the setting...
Further to Mark Baker's excellent answer: If you want your writing to be more colorful, practice observing and recording colorful things. I don't necessary mean literal color, although that's not...
Some of the current answers are part of the problem that you have: they provide a cognitive approach. When your writing lacks "color" it lacks emotion. You cannot analyse other texts and conscious...
Decide whether it's the wealth and comfort of the family which they dislike, or their family which they don't click with. The former scenario would alienate a lot of your readers unless you got it...
Try going over your work paragraph by paragraph. It is you who sensed that it is "beige," indicating that you see a flaw there. Try some tricks: changing word order, finding more exciting verbs to ...
There are several different techniques I've seen used in books/shows that usually help to alleviate this problem. A side story arc. Barry may be the main character and the major events may surro...
If your question is, can you set a story in an imaginary place without telling the reader that you have done so, the answer is yes, but the reader will not know that you have done so. The problem i...
One easy, cheap and workable approach to writing without worldbuilding is when the world is known. Your story takes place at the White House, your protagonist is President Trump. Everyone knows al...
1) Where's the best place to hide a red fish? In a pond full of other red fish. Since you're writing in a fantasy genre, you have liberty to create an entire society. You're doing all your own wor...
I would tend to match the case of the interface, but here is a way to think it through: Labels on interface elements are often brief instructions rather than actual names. The capitalization of th...
I think the really important conflict is between the world inside a character's head and the world outside of it. Since "the world outside of it" is usually shaped by other characters acting in acc...
I think that depends entirely on your story and the initial mood you're trying to establish (both for the story and between the characters). Starting with a physical conflict is a fairly easy way t...
This is not uncommon these days, particularly in fantasy and science-fiction (no doubt driven by the popularity of role-playing games in these genres, which can't assume the main character's gender...
Given your clarification and that the fact that androgynes exist in your novel's world, I'll concur with the rest of the answers here -- purposefully concealing it will dissatisfy your readers beca...
You could make the narrator fascinated with the main character and write your story in the second person. Perhaps the narrator is a friend or mentor of some kind, to whom the main character shares...
You didn't say why you want to keep the gender ambiguous. That might help in giving a good answer. One possibility that doesn't deceive the reader would be to write 1st person and make your main c...
Study Your Friends You likely have male friends. When speaking with them, really think about their responses. Listen to their phrasing and try to remember exactly how they put things, then go back...
Given the non-standard usage of the term "cult status" in the OP Works that inspire unusually passionate or devoted fans do have a common denominator --they are risky, challenging, eccentric, or o...
Centuries don't have styles; writers have styles. True, there are certain broad features of the way things are written which change over time, but they are very much secondary to the styles of indi...
It's A Colloquialism Among Writers Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird (amazon link), has an entire section named, Shi**y First Drafts. That's where the idea originally got traction. The better way to s...
Copyright is automatic. If you write something, you own the copyright on it. If you write something for hire, the person who hires you owns the copyright on it. Certain jurisdictions may provide a ...
Think about the writing when you’re not at the keyboard; e.g while walking the dog, especially if this immediately preceeds the writing time. Have an idea or three queued up before you start.
This is more commonly known as 'writer's block', and the solution is simple: Write about something else, on a separate piece of paper (or separate file if you're typing). Write about whatever comes...
You should only attempt the style of the 17th/18th centuries if you're writing some kind of pastiche or mimicry of a book written then — for example, a Sense and Sensibility and Dragons kind of thi...
I'm going to go out on a limb and say just write the character and let the chips fall where they may. There's a lot going on in the brain and we don't understand this. Although I appreciate some ...
