: Re: How does one deal with world builder's syndrome? I am a planner in the extreme. I tend to drift toward fantasy oriented novels when writing; it's just what comes out. This means that I do

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The problem with Tolkien is that he wrote a fantasy land without it being explicitly a basis for a novel - the novel came out of it, almost accidentally. That is not a good way to go if you do not have another job that allows you to do that.

The other side is that, if you are working on a series of novels, then the stuff you work on now may end up very useful in another novel. it is not wasted, it might inspire something else, or it might never be used, but provide depth to your work anyway.

You may spend 50K words and many hours on a scene that ends up with an oblique reference in one sentence. But it will be a right and relevant reference.

You may spend the same time and realise that you can work this into an entire novel.

So enjoy making the world real. You seem to be writing enough anyway, so lose yourself in it, because the more you believe it, the more your readers will.

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