Worldbuilder's Anvil

Today's Topic – Preventing your fantasy world from blowing up I am not going to talk about preventing errors in stories or fatal world building flaws that will lose you, readers.  I am talking building a story towards a world apocalypse, but then adverting it. It is a popular story type.  It creates a lot of the same tension as destroying the world.  However, you are not left with a post-apocalyptic world.  Now you might have guessed from episode 86, 87, and 88.  Michael and I love fictional worlds blowing up and consuming post-apocalyptic fiction. You might have even cried a bit if you performed the Worldbuilder task for those episodes and destroyed your world, to that we say, “Thanks!” However, in today's episode.  We will be talking about why it might be a useful story to create.  People do seem to love them.  They are thrilling.  And it might be possible to make them without turning the story into a horrible disaster trope. However, as a show, we would like to encourage you to consider really just blowin