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fyp-philosophy:

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batemanhelps:

Baton down the hatches, it’s time to look at the political turmoil and economic wasteland that was the 1930s. There’s a huge focus on Fascism and Communism under the cut as I find the politics at the time interesting, though other aspects of life during the decade are also explored later on.

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thewritingcafe:

nimblesnotebook-blog:

Anonymous asked you:

Do you have anything on religious sects?

Of what religion? It doesn’t matter anyway, since I don’t have anything on religious sects. However, I can give you some tips on creating a religious sect from a fictional religion or an existing one.

Part I: Creating a Religion

Part II: Religious Hierarchies

Part III: Pantheons, Deities, Mythologies, etc.

Part IV: Creating a Deity

BONUS: Ceremonies (birth, death, naming, sacrificing, rites of passage)

What is a Religious Sect?

The term “sect” has different connotations and different meanings based on religion, context, time period, and place, but a common use for the term “religious sect” is to describe a subgroup of a religion. Therefore, this post will use “sect” to mean “subgroup”. I’ll go into more details below the cut.

At this point, I have misspelled “sect” as “sext” seven times.

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creativeprompts:

7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it’s the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole story, and leave your characters feeling pointless. Here are seven deadly sins of worldbuilding.

1. Not thinking about basic infrastructure.

How do they eat? What do they eat? Who takes away the garbage? Who deals with their bodily wastes? How do they get around? What do the majority of people do to survive? You’re not just constructing a society, you’re creating an economy. People don’t oppress each other for fun — usually, systems of hierarchy and oppression have an economic component to them. Maybe you need a lot of peasants to grow labor-intensive crops, or maybe you need lots of cannon fodder in your space war. Maybe your only source of protein is a weird fungus that needs to be tended by specially trained people. Maybe everybody’s eating algae. In any case, there’s nothing worse than a fictional world where there are elaborate social structures, which seem completely separated from the realities of food, shelter and clothing.

Read the rest of the reasons HERE