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Activity for Bill Blondeau‭

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Edit Post #13265 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Edit Post #5189 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: World Building vs Story Writing
I would suspect that you may be having a specific problem with storytelling (which is not quite the same thing as writing.) I myself do a lot of worldbuilding for fictional purposes, and your description: > "I will spend large amounts of planning the geography so small pockets of interesting specie...
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almost 9 years ago
Answer A: How do you avoid the problem of a collaborative work having separate voices?
Two authors divide duties, not content One very successful technique was the one used by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp in their wonderful fantasy romps such as Land of Unreason and The Incomplete Enchanter. Pratt, at the time the much more experienced and accomplished of the two, would roug...
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about 9 years ago