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How Planned is Your Plan?

D. Gray Warrior

Troubadour
I create a general overview of my setting. It usually involves a basic premise (e.g. a man embarks on a quest to save the princess.) and then I determine who my major characters are. I usually have a few vague idea of scenes.

I do minimal worldbuilding. One of my current projects is actually sci fi, and some characters have psychic powers. So, the only real worldbuilding I did was writing down how psionics work in that setting, and then filled in everything else while I wrote. Psionics or magic, I think it's important to know how the paranormal elements in a story work before you sit down and write.
 
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