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What are the best worldbuilding strategies to use in fiction?
Hello,
I’m trying to learn the skill of worldbuilding in fiction. (Potentially fantasy, scifi, or speculative) What are the most important elements of a world that I should know in order to build it correctly? History? Magic? Political Structures?
There may be details that apply cross-genres. I’m especially interested in those.
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