Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, Dan, and DongWon We invited attendees at WXR 2018 to ask us some general worldbuilding questions. Here's what they asked: * What cultural stuff do you need to know during the writing process? * How do you treat overlaps between real-world religions and fictional religions when the fictional religions are part of the story's fundamental conflict? * How much worldbuilding do you have figured out before you start your first draft, and how much do you discover on the fly? * What's the point in a book beyond which you shouldn't introduce big worldbuilding elements? * How do you ensure that the world comes through as a character of its own? * How much change to terminology is too much? Credits: This episode was recorded live by Bert Grimm, and mastered by Alex Jackson