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Worldbuilding! What's in a world? A LOT. Ultimately, you can read posts like this all day, but many ideas might not come to you until yo...

On my mind this week: the real-world challenges for people with declining physical ability and how to incorporate that into fictional-world ...

 Question of the week: How often does weather/climate factor into my stories? Sometimes the presence of weather/climate is negligible. Other...

  Sometimes, the rule of the land is meant to keep the powerless powerless . All hail the rebels who mean to change that. ~ Raina Bloodgood,...

  Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is politics and - no, wait! Come back!! Politics in FICTION, okay??? We're asking how politics an...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is "World Rules and Painting Yourself into a Corner: What's a rule of your world establis...

Political world building, next on Nov. . .no. Wait. I'm not PBS. Sorry. Still. We are examining the merits and deficits of governmental ...

It’s no secret that my heart…or rather, my head, belongs in the clouds. Particularly clouds shaped like dragons and castles. So, it s...

This week at the SFF Seven, we're asking: Presidential or Kingly - How do you decide your world's structure of authority and/...

As requested, I've put THE SNOWS OF WINDROVEN, HEART'S BLOOD, NEGOTIATION and THE CROWN OF THE QUEEN into print format! You can fi...

I can't believe that THE ORCHID THRONE releases this week! Feels like it was forever away for so long, and suddenly it's here. Wo...

Yesterday I cooked brunch for writer friends Jim Sorenson and Sage Walker . (That's me in my Orchid Throne apron that the amazingly ...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is: That one "rule" that you gloriously, ecstatically love to break. Now, I’m an iconocla...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is "Channeling JK Rowling: Any apologies due your readers for the way you treated a character?...

Our topic this week at the SFF Seven - one entirely appropriate for science fiction and fantasy authors - is "spending time on worldb...

When I was in Denver for the RWA National Conference , my friend and writing buddy, Darynda Jones , and I took a lunch break at Ship Tav...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is "doing the research" - and what that means for building new fantasy or alien culture...

The picture has nothing to do with the subject today. It's just the season for butterflies in the zinnias and I was lucky enough to be...

What worldbuilding do I do that isn't necessarily about the story itself but is a personal indulgence? It depends on the subgenre I...