How Getting Worldbuilding Wrong Will Destroy Your Work

The Fundamentals of Worldbuilding and Systems

John Ilho
The Writing Cooperative
12 min readDec 2, 2023

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The great Great A’Tuin Migration by the Author

Nothing beats great worldbuilding. Star Wars and all its success hinged on that. If you strip it of its flawless worldbuilding (OG trilogy) and systems, it would’ve been just another fairytale.

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I’m a former head chef turned full-time writer. I know, right? I, too, thought my mom had raised me better than this.