Title: Write Your Own Cake: A Worldbuilding Essay
Author: Jennifer Estep
Genre: Adult, nonfiction, writing
Publication date: February 2022
Published by: Jennifer Estep
Source: Purchased ebook
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Synopsis: When it comes to writing, worldbuilding is like making a cake. Why a cake? Because every author starts with the same general ingredients of characters, plot, and setting, but it’s how each author combines and adds to those ingredients that makes a book an author’s own unique creation.
This essay offers a few tips and poses some questions for figuring out the things you enjoy and do best as an author, so that you can write your own cake, whether it’s a big, bold epic fantasy adventure, a subtle, nuanced mystery, an emotion-packed romance, or something else.
Note: Write Your Own Cake is a 2,000-word essay about writing and worldbuilding. It first appeared as part of the Scribbler subscription box in November 2018.
When I say I'll read anything and everything by Jennifer Estep, I literally mean everything...
Including this! This is an essay about writing and it uses food as a metaphor, which I love because Jennifer’s food descriptions in her books always make me drool.
This had a lot of good information on writing and finding your strengths. And she also uses Kill the Queen as an example, which I really appreciated. But yeah, I really enjoyed this! It was easy to read—the cake metaphors helped lol—and just very helpful if you’re looking for some writing advice. Because you know what?
This had a lot of good information on writing and finding your strengths. And she also uses Kill the Queen as an example, which I really appreciated. But yeah, I really enjoyed this! It was easy to read—the cake metaphors helped lol—and just very helpful if you’re looking for some writing advice. Because you know what?
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