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Lesson 5.2: Informed Speculation. Filling Gaps Responsibly. (opens the original)
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Lesson 5.1: Sticking to the Facts. What's Non-Negotiable. (opens the original)
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Module 4 Assessment: Building Characters & Worlds (opens the original)
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Lesson 4.4: Sensory Storytelling & Avoiding Info Dumps (opens the original)
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You’ve built your world. You know your primary setting — its physical container, its social dynamics, the historical pressure bearing down on it. You have research that most novelists would envy. Now comes the question every historical writer faces: how do you get all of that into the story without stopping the story to explain it?Consider the differenc… Read more
Lesson 4.3: World Building Through Genealogical Sources (opens the original)
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Most writing guides treat world-building as an act of invention, the writer constructing a world from imagination and research. For genealogical writers, it’s something different. You’re not building a world. You’re excavating one.You already have tools that most writers don’t. Records that place your ancestor in specific places at specific times. Documents that reveal the material conditions of their lives. Newspapers that captured the texture of daily life as people were actually living it. Th
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