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Writing 1w
Guys what do you do with a world you’ve built but don’t have a story for? Like I’ve built everything out but don’t have a main plot, just a bunch of tiny stories important to the world. I feel like not doing anything with it would just be a waste😭
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Anonymous 1w

Post all the lore and your mini stories. It can just be for funsies. And maybe it’ll gain a community of people making stories in your world

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Anonymous 1w

Wait yeah I’m great with characters and relationship dynamics and wants and really bad with world building. If you send a premise I’ll brain dump ideas lmao

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Anonymous 5d

What’s the most important thing in your world and how can your protagonist achieve it

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Considering I’ve never had this issue I have little advice, but think about some cool stories your world is adjacent to and the problem (political, war, rituals, right of passage, epic quest) and a few characters you either really enjoy and think would shave fun in your world, or unlikely characters you think would do poorly in your world. You can also take ten and free write premises and see if any of them are interesting. Like ex princess plots her way back into kingdom with help of

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Prince with secrete assassin credentials and a misfit thief with ties to the royal thrown. Or like ‘the kingdom was perfect, but they had a orge problem’ silly things like that

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