Today’s topic applies heavily to world-building but also to plot. And, given that world-building is typically a bigger issue for a fantasy, scifi, or historical writer, you might find this more helpful if one of those is your genre. It addresses something I hear a lot from aspiring writers (and I say “aspiring writers” because most of them haven’t started writing), that they want to tell a story, but their idea isn’t big enough. As if they can’t start writing unless they have