"I pulled my cloak around me" is not world building

start it from the ground up

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I wanted to talk about worldbuilding today, for real worldbuilding, worldbuilding worldbuilding. I have written elsewhere about how EVERY book has worldbuilding, from SFF to hyperrealistic literary fiction, in the form of “setting is worl…