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b'It\'s the Writing Excuses Fantasy Setting Yard Sale!
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\\nIn this experimental (at least for us) \'cast, Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard build a couple of fantasy settings for you, and they\'re free. Seriously. TAKE THEM.
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\\nWe start our world-building with an unusual way for someone to obtain magical powers. We ended up with space-dust.\\xa0We then head into what these powers do, and again we look for something unusual. We picked mutation.\\xa0Then we start applying limitations: astrological, alchemical, and geological.
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\\nOur second pass (we\'re giving away more than one of these!) began with cultural elements. We toy with how political power is granted, and end up with some neat linguistic bits, puerile humor, dance steps, ambidexterity, and a callback to the earlier puerility.
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\\nAudiobook Pick-of-the-Week: The\\xa0Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel, by Brandon Sanderson, narrated by Michael Kramer
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\\nWriting Prompt: This whole episode is one big writing prompt, and you need one because NaNoWriMo is over, but that\'s no excuse to not write. You\'re out of excuses, as we\'ve told you on more than one occasion. Write!
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\\nPuerility: "Fart joke."
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