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For the novel I'm working on now, set on a tropical island, I started with a rough-sketched map that's still on the wall in front of me. Details change as I write the actual story - "Oh, that house can't be there or he would have seen it as he biked up the coast" sorts of stuff, so there are plenty of erasures and scribbling on it these days. I spend most of my time/energy on the characters and the stories they're creating, and revise (or discover, maybe) the landscape details as I go. I suppose I'll be through 'world building' about the same time I finish the final draft.
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