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World-Building for Fiction Writers as a Repeatable Practice
A checklist becomes a project risk when it keeps demanding more lore than your story can actually use. Checklists are not the problem on their own. A [writer's checklist](https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-need-checklists) can catch avoidable mistakes before submission. An open-ended lore checklist does something else: it quietly turns drafting time into background research with no clear stop point.
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