#PennedPossibilities 1102: Do you have a strategy for how you approach worldbuilding?

Yes and it's gnarly! Start by working out what kind of story the setting is a backdrop for, then examine ALL the stock clichés so that I can use them *if they work* and deep-six them if they're nonsense.

My current WIP, a space opera, got rolling right after I wrote this essay, which was just me setting my own ground rules *before* the world-building:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/towards-a-taxonomy-of-cliches-.html