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Thought for the Day Places are never just places in a piece of ...
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Well yeah... There is always that balance between world building and action that goes into pacing. Every fiction reader wants to enter a place so defined they feel they can escape there and be reluctant to leave.
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I like her setting: looks comfy.
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