https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:08:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2012/10/writerstrong-world-building-techniques/ Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:00:19 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=6722 by Fae Rowen Because I write science fiction, I have to immerse my reader in the most important facets of my story's world with the first words. When you add this into the requirements of an opening hook, portraying the "real world" of your characters, and setting up the inciting incident, etc., the beginning of […]

The post WriterStrong: World Building Techniques -- Keep Your Reader Grounded In Your Story first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/07/world-building-part-1-physical-setting/ Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:00:59 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=1650 by Fae Rowen I was shocked when Laura, Sharla and Jenny suggested I write a craft blog on world building.  Before you read any further, I need to confess something.  I've never taken a world building writing class.  But after three decades as a science fiction freak, it's no wonder I enjoy world building.  In […]

The post World Building: Part 1- Physical Setting first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2011/05/embrace-your-red-pen/ Wed, 25 May 2011 11:48:39 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=1331 by Fae Rowen The joke in here at WITS is that I sit in my living room waiting for an editor to knock on my front door and ask, “Do you have a book I can buy?”  Yep, pretty passive.  Lots of backstory on why I haven’t sent out requested manuscripts, but here’s what’s going […]

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