Rethink Your Worldbuilding

Writers

Rethink Your Worldbuilding *Cancelled*

Learn how to plan a coherent world that serves your speculative fiction writing.

 

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Thur, 8/1/2024

Cancelled

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Type:
Class, No Prerequisite

Location:
Writers' Studio

Interests:
Craft of Writing, Fiction

About

Novels with speculative elements require authors to establish how the world of the novel is different from our world. Often, worldbuilding classes cover an exhaustive list of elements in a society. This class aims to focus your planning and avoid becoming overwhelmed or spending time making rules that never affect your story. 

Instead of making a list of polities and royal genealogies, we'll discuss what your choices say about the story you want to tell, and what's important to put on the page. By taking each author’s existing interests and knowledge, we will work to make cohesive, interesting worlds. 

This is not a class that subscribes to the Brandon Sanderson school of magic systems, although proper respect will be paid. The merits of different magic systems will be discussed, as well as the thematic resonances of each. Instead of rules, we'll talk about what matters, what is memorable, and what is unique about the stories you want to tell.

Class Policies

Ages 14 and up are welcome.

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