Vick Gaines asked David Dalglish:

Hey Mr. Dalglish. I started with the Shadow series but the Half-Orcs series is the one that grasped me. The lore and all that it contains. I'm attempting to write myself. I just wanted to know...How did you start your world? Did you craft all the lore and everything that entails before or did you just start writing and think of things as you go?

David Dalglish Pretty much everything involving the world of Dezrel was crafted at random intervals throughout the writing of the 20 books or so set there. If you're looking at writing fantasy novels, at the beginning, I'd say don't focus too much on the world-building. It's way too seductive and easy to spend hours inventing houses and maps and fanciful history to avoid the difficult hours of butt-in-chair writing the actual novel part.

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