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Worldbuilding
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Time, place, culture, context )
Setting is difficult for me because description is not one of my better writing skills. With fanfic, if you are using a canon setting, you often can cheat and not describe as much because people reading the fic usually have some sense of what the place looks like from the main source. But, in AU fic, a lot of time settings are altered, and therefore have to be described in more detail without interrupting the action/flow of a story.
I try to take into account how much detail to include without inhibiting the story. Some of it will depend on the length of a story. I want to include textual detail (how things smell, feel, or taste) because sight and sound are usually included within canon. Again, descriptive passages are very difficult for me! ;_;
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