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   Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 21:58:37 JST Greg Wilson

   I've run out of things to teach.

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 21:58:37 JST powersoffour

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     @gvwilson Are you only counting "technical" things or "technical-adjacent" topics? Have you taught about worldbuilding?

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     Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 22:45:30 JST Greg Wilson

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     @powersoffour If anyone wants to know about world building I'll just point them at @swan_tower 's books and get out of the way...

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     Yani Bellini Saibene (yabellini@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 01:31:14 JST Yani Bellini Saibene

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     @gvwilson do you have a course on how to write (books or blog posts, or edit or review) Because you know how to do that and I never see you teaching that.

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     Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 01:31:14 JST Greg Wilson

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     • Yani Bellini Saibene

     @yabellini like worldbuilding, that's something that other people have written about far better than I could.

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 01:31:14 JST powersoffour

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     • Yani Bellini Saibene

     @gvwilson @yabellini "better" is a bit of a one-dimensional assessment!

     I asked about worldbuilding specifically because I've read some of the Kobold guides, I've read books with fascinating worldbuilding, but I'm curious about the approach *you* specifically took with your work and how you would reflect on that now, if you'd make changes, etc, and the needs of your fiction vs RPG media, blah blah.

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     Yani Bellini Saibene (yabellini@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 01:31:15 JST Yani Bellini Saibene

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     @gvwilson I'll take the bait. Why do you say that?

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     Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 01:31:15 JST Greg Wilson

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     • Yani Bellini Saibene

     @yabellini I can't think of anything I already know well enough to teach that I haven't taught - if I want to teach something new, I'll have to learn it myself first.

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     Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 02:49:30 JST Greg Wilson

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     • Yani Bellini Saibene

     @powersoffour @yabellini the problem I have with worldbuilding is the same problem I have with writing tools for books instead of books themselves: I could spend _forever_ "getting ready" and never get around to what I was supposed to be supporting.