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Ask the Bard #35: Why Horror?

Indebted

Setbacks: What is the Cost of Friendship? In This Case 1%

Championing E. Christopher Clark: That Time I Interviewed my Worldbuilding Hero

You Don't Need to Know EVERYTHING: Worldbuilding's Biggest Myth SHATTERED

Ask the Bard #34: Does Worldbuilding REALLY Matter?

The Tippy-Top of the Bell Curve is NOT a Position of Envy.

'Rhapsody by Moonlight' is Now 'Real Worldbuilding'

GenCon 2025: Haly's FULL Event Schedule

GenCon 2025: What's In the Event Catalog & What is Not...Yet

Ask the Bard #33: Project Franklin & Holiday World

Ask the Bard #32: Fixing Spacetime and Determining Technology

Ask the Bard #31: Worldbuilding as a Community Project

Quick Six: Rituals of Renewal

Worldbuilding Wednesday #30: I'm Back, Bay-Bee & the Necessity of Description in Contemporary Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding in Contemporary Fiction and Non-Fiction

Weekly Digest: Crunch Time, Revisiting Culture, and Seeking Beta Readers

Worldbuilding Wednesday #29: When Custom > Law

Weekly Digest: Moving, Writing a New Class, and Ghost Stories

Worldbuilding Wednesday #28: Religious Dogma & Foreshadowing Disaster

Weekly Digest: Quiet & Productive

Critical Changes

Prologue: The Mist Reaper

Weekly Digest: Magic, Detours, and the WAWAs

Quick Six: Magic

For Your Consideration: Why it Can be Good to Care About Awards

Tiny Worlds, Big Stories: The Advantages of Micro-Worldbuilding

Ask the Bard #27: Real People & Places in Fiction

Detours in Life

Unlocking the Secrets of Magical Worldbuilding

Weekly Digest: Transportation

Quick Six: Transportation

Feature Friday: An Interview with Chris Lontok

Ask the Bard #26.5: Fantasizing Real Cultures and Transportation Issues

Ask the Bard #26: First Person POV, Plotting a Revolution, and a First Ever TBC!

Worldbuilding Wonders: Transportation Through Time and Space

The Journey is the Destination: Making Travel Matter in Your Worldbuilding

Weekly Digest: Architecture

Quick Six: Architecture

Prepping for GenCon, January: Event Schedule

The Unseen Truth: Revisiting Unreliable Narrators

Ask the Bard #25: Assumptions, Misconceptions, and Ego

Seeking Shelter: How the Environment Shapes Architecture in Worldbuilding

The Power of Place: Six Ways to Showcase Your World with Architecture

Weekly Digest: Conflict

Quick Six: Conflict & Competition

Fears of a Fiction Writer

MacGuffins & Red Herrings Revisited

Ask the Bard #24: Vibe = Mood + Tone

Ambush & Betrayal: Sources of Secret Conflict

Dissonance & Discord: Non-Traditional Conflict in Worldbuilding

Weekly Digest: Rebirth

Quick Six: Rebirth & Renewal

Making Sausage: Editing & Judging

Haly and DW Talk About Stuff, a Fiction 2x2

Fuel for Rebirth: Decay in Worldbuilding

Ask the Bard #23: Worldbuilding vs. Story

Interpreting Rebirth: Building Cycles in Your World

Revolutionary Ideas: Rebirthing Your World

Weekly Digest: Tropes & Genre & Editing, Oh My!

Quick Six: Genre Bending Dystopian + Fairy Tale

What is "My Best?"

Destination: Emotion

Ask the Bard #22: Character Archetypes are Tropes, Too!

Twisted Tuesday: Tangled Tropes and Grafted Genres

Seeking Comfort: Letting Tropes Guide Your Worldbuilding

Weekly Digest: A New Year & Culture

Saturday Quick Six: Pop Culture

Feature Friday: An Interview With E. Christopher Clark

Throwback Thursday: Cultural Evolution

Ask the Bard #21: Building Culture & New Year Wishes

WorldEmber Day 31: 2024's Grand Finale