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Vito and John recap their first week of writing their first drafts. They discuss pushing through discouragement, how to preserve your excitement for the story from plotting to drafting, and their complimentary differences in style as writers. 

The meat and potatoes of this episode is this idea: when do you world build? It has to be done if one is writing fantasy. That's kind of the point of fantasy, after all. But how do you make sure you're tailoring your world to your story and not the other way around? How do you build your world without getting lost in Wikipedia? How do you avoid using world building as a crutch for your lack of motivation to actually write? All this and more in this week's episode.