Worldbuilding That Works: Creating Vivid Settings Without Drowning in Details
I once spent an entire weekend plotting out the trade routes of an imaginary empire—every caravan stop, every bandit...
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How Long Should Your Book Be (Really)? A Genre Guide to Novel & Novella Lengths
Writers love to overcomplicate things. We argue over word counts, obsess over whether a book is “long enough” to be...