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How a video game built a city that feels alive, and the methods you can take from it for your own world.

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What makes readers care about a revenge plot.

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Building a fantasy empire that feels real, from its first city to its final days

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How to write a death scene that readers never get over

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How to make a fallen civilization matter to the people living in its ruins, and to your plot.

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How to build a magic system that generates story, not decoration…

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Six questions about money that fix more worldbuilding problems than another map will

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These 6 Steps Will Fix Every One of Them

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4 ways to make readers believe in a place, and none of them ask you to invent more of it

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A quarter of novels get abandoned before the end of chapter one. Usually, the reason is the opening.

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