What in the World is World Building? A Discussion of B.R. Yeager’s Pearl Death and Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun

While we often think of the plot of our stories as their bedrock, I (Ben) actually think it is the world in which they take place. Without the world, there is nothing to motivate the story from the outside, there is no context in which the story takes place. In this episode, we discuss what it is that allows for something as large as the entire world to show up on the page.

• Pearl Death by B.R. Yeager


• Shadow and Claw (the first two books in the Book of the New Sun series) by Gene Wolfe


• I’m a Writer But podcast.


• New World on Netflix.

Good Writing is a podcast where two MFA friends read like writers and lay out craft ideas for fellow writers to steal. Co-hosted by Emily Donovan and Benjamin Kerns.

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