At the most recent meeting of my Transplants Writer’s Group, we discussed world building. The group consists of two literary fiction authors, a non-fiction author and me representing speculative fiction. One of the comments that came out was, “It’s hard enough writing in a world I already know. I don’t know how you SF guys do it.” This surprised me because I LOVE the world building part of writing. Most of the discovery and research I do before I start a project is all about world building. The other surprising assumption was that world building wasn’t as important for non-SF writing. This is not true at all. Every writer does world building. Continue reading “World Building”





