PMd paypal address <| sep |> tldr Focusing the world is very good advice , but only when the world is a vessel for telling the story , not the story a vessel for telling the world . The irony in that is that , of the two worlds I ' ve built , this is the more focused of the two . It has a single story spanning fifteen years following a set number of characters with a definite beginning and end . It IS overly complex in the sense that I have a few hundred years of galactic lore and planetary politics cushioning either side of the story , but most of it is story relevant and is brought up to at least a small extent somewhere . I created it with the intent of only ever telling a single story that would never continue beyond its end , and it has served that purpose well . The other one , which I consider my magnum opus , is the opposite . It ' s a fantasycreated because I liked the name of a cannon factory in a book I read , so also a pretty big mutation there that sprawls across thousands of years with the most intricate details over every society micromanaged to perfection . As for stories in this world , if you were to put them on a timeline it would look like someone went to town with a shotgun , stories being created and destroyed as necessity demands their creation to fulfill major events and then promptly revised or removed when those events are revised or removed . That being said , I never wanted to necessarily tell a story with this world . There are stories in it that I want to tell , but they were created for the world , not the other way around . I created this world for the intent of creating a WORLD . In the most literal sense possible . Basically as close as I can get to making a world that is equally as deep and complex as the real world . As you can imagine , focusing the world for a story wouldn ' t help . Focusing the story for the world would .