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World Building Sub-genres go with our World Building Category.  These are story elements and world-building material.  Entries in this list are not meant to be stories. 

World Building Deep Dive


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World Building is a special genre added to Gay Authors to group together the various elements that an author must develop for a speculative fiction story that occurs outside of our own experiences.  The further outside the more that needs to be developed.  However, modern audiences do not generally tolerate large amounts of exposition (Show, Don't Tell!).  World Building genre is where you can post the various parts and pieces that aren't full on story, but fill your world for those that just want to know more but would slow down your story or be a cheesy infodump. You should NOT tag fiction stories with World Building genre. These tags are meant for story information and fragments in World Building category.
 
 

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Truly admire anyone that attempts to break into this type of storytelling.  It is never easy; but those that do it well, usually produce wonderful stories.

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Thank you for explaining this. Let's see if I understood this correctly. I can create a world where I can subsume stories that take place there. When I want to explain how the vampires, and wolves are made, that's worlbuilding.

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24 minutes ago, Aditus said:

Thank you for explaining this. Let's see if I understood this correctly. I can create a world where I can subsume stories that take place there. When I want to explain how the vampires, and wolves are made, that's worlbuilding.

Yes?

example.. in the story you mention gadget, and a character moves it or something in a scene.

in the world building entry, it might be an encyclopedia entry of the invention and use of gadget. This information needs to exist in some form, but breaks the flow of a story if you info dump it in the scene.

 

 

 

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