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People need context

August 27, 2002 Stephanie Leary

700-ish words on Sunday and 500 words last night – a minor breakthrough, I think, and not just because it’s the first thing I’ve written in a while, but because it provided a key bit of worldbuilding.

I owe both tidbits to the Liaden Universe books, which I devoured last week. They made me realize that while I have characters, I have very little context. I need to give my people a society to play in!

This sounds so silly – you see, I thought I had, and then I read this series and realized how wrong I was.

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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