I hate this part.

Now that I have hacked and slashed my way through the first 50,000 (now first 40,000) words of my YA fantasy, its to-do list is topped by the need to sit down and do some serious world-building and backstory-coming-up-with. In my heart I know it's the right thing to do. "But that's no fuuuun," Laura whined. "Not like writing fight scenes and describing opulent interiors and penning witty banter. Those are fun. Hard work, intellectual rigor, and scrupulous attention to internal consistency are not."

Tough, Laura.