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Seeking Comfort: Letting Tropes Guide Your Worldbuilding

Seeking Comfort: Letting Tropes Guide Your Worldbuilding

Haly teases apart the differences between setting, character, and plot tropes and dissects how each can — and sometimes should — guide your worldbuilding.

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Jan 07, 2025
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