Also, worldbuilding touches all aspects of your story. It touches plot and character as well. If you don't know the culture your character comes from, how can you know what he's really like? You must know your characters on a much deeper level than you would if you just shrugged your way into a cookie cutter fantasy world.
Patrick RothfussIf you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.
Patrick RothfussIn my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What if?" is the question fiction asks. That's the question I'm more interested in.
Patrick RothfussFencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
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