Can we learn from big shared-world universes like Star Wars how to builcohesive epic-sized story worlds (without planning everything in advance)?

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How Can We Worldbuild on an Epic Scale?

Third-person POV ranges from the most distant to the deepest perspectives, so how can we tell where our story falls on the POV spectrum to avoid problems?

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Is Our Story’s Point of View Really What We Think It Is?

Most stories are written in literary past tense. What does that term mean, and if different from normal past tense, how is literary past tense different?

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Storytelling Verb Tenses: Past, Present, and “Literary” Past Tense

For a strong story pace, we need to ensure every element has purpose. How can we do that? How can we know if a scene or sentence is pointless?

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Story Elements: Give Them Purpose

A joke about authors vs. English teachers has circulated online for years. What can it teach us about how readers interpret our story?

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Do Your Stories Have Deeper Meanings?