![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry Potter has much to answer for, and though it’s slightly less common these days, you still sometimes get 500+ page works of fantasy. Children’s authors are not immune to this. I picture some scrappy author out there pouring their heart and soul into some 1,000 page tome, only to have a mean old editor tell them that their book would be impossible to publish at that size. It would stand to reason that an author would want to use as many words as humanly possible to describe the new ideas, sights, sounds, smells, and rules of their creations. And worlds, as we all know, are rather large. Fantasy novels in particular utilize a lot of world building. I don’t have a dictionary in front of me right now, but if I were to hazard a guess as to what it means, I’d probably say it was the way in which an author fully immerses their reader in worlds of their own making. I am often grateful that people have come up with terms and phrases that so perfectly describe literary tropes and ideas that would otherwise be difficult to define. ![]()
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