: Re: Want to write, have ideas, no story telling techniques or experience, feeling lost? I have developed a sci-fi/fantasy mixed universe with many characters, good amount of background lore and I

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Consider not writing novels
Books are great. Novels are great. There's nothing wrong with writing them, they have a lot of unique value, and I certainly don't mean to discourage you from writing one (or starting one) if you feel like it.
But books are not the only way to tell stories, not the only way to share a world, and certainly not always the best way to do that for every author (I use that term here loosely) or for every story for that matter. I fear you might be looking at writing stories for your world in those forms because that's the only thing you've really been exposed to. Most of the ways I'm aware of to share fictional worlds involve writing to one extent or another-- and they all involve storytelling, but they aren't all going to be the same.
Have you thought about making a video game set in your world?
Have you thought about running RPGs set in it (personally, I find this the most satisfying medium, because oral storytelling comes much more naturally to me), and maybe writing down the resources needed to do so, so that other people can do that, too?
Have you considered writing a screenplay? Or maybe a comic/graphic novel?
Basically, think about why you want to tell the story, and how you want to tell the story. Maybe you do just need to sit down and crank out long prose fiction drafts and learn to write long prose fiction. That's 100% the right way to learn to write long prose fiction, and it could very well be the right choice for you. But do it because writing a novel is what you want to do with this, because a novel is the right way to tell this story, not just because a novel is the only sort of storytelling you are familiar with the idea of doing.

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