Writing Excuses 10.6: The Worldbuilding Revolves Around Me (“The Magical 1%”)
Max Gladstone joins us to talk about worldbuilding, and how many genre settings seem to revolve around whatever gifted, magical, or otherwise special sort of people our heroes and villains happen to be. Jedi, for instance. Consider, then, the plight of the “regular” people, like Han Solo.
We talk about how to tell whether or not this is problematic for the story you are telling, and how one might work with the trope in ways that make stories better.
Homework: Think about the last time you lost at a game. What was the process of thought that led to your loss? Now, replicate that moment in the dramatic structure of the story, except the story isn’t about games.
Thing of the week: Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone, narrated by Claudia Alick.
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