“Worldbuilding works when it's used to facilitate imagination. It doesn't work when it's used to stifle it.
The goal is to make it seem like the world is alive and exists with or without you. When it's used as a gate to insist that certain things couldn't happen, then it no longer serves a purpose for the story.”
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