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Under the heading of “Careful What You Wish For . . .”:
Fifteen years ago I was at a professional crossroads. I’d recently completed my doctorate in history and had job applications pending at a number of colleges and universities. I had also started work on the novel that would become Children of Amarid. Within a [...]
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In a comment to my post last week one of our readers (Thanks Alan!) asked about the level of detail we put into our worldbuilding. The question, I think, was prompted by my description of the details I put into my character development, and in many ways I consider the background work I do [...]