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    On Worldbuilding Traps: How to Avoid Them

    After dropping my marathon of a guide on worldbuilding, I thought that the next best topic to cover would be on worldbuilding traps. Why, you may ask? Well, because you can easily fall into any one of them. Seriously, it’s something that a lot of writers struggle with. I recently discovered that one of my closest friends was experiencing this problem. She’d gotten so lost into the worldbuilding: the history, the myths—the ethos, even that she’d completely neglected the story. And we all know how important the plot, among other aspects, of a story is. Of course, you can totally walk yourself out of such a trap. And that’s the…