Creative Writing:  World Building

Creative Writing: World Building

It's not just epic space opera or fantasy that need world building and if you don't have solid foundations things start to crumble quickly.

By Iain McKinnon

Date and time

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:00 - 13:30 PDT

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

Module 9:

World Building


World building is not just the tool of space operas and fantasy epics, worldbuilding is in every story even if that story takes place within the real world. In this workshop we will look at third order effects, logical consistency, hard and soft rules, how to best introduce your world to the reader and how to avoid cultural appropriation.


Module 1: Introduction to Creative Writing, Rules & PURPOSE

Module 2: Metrics, Motivation & Productivity

Module 3: What is a Novel & Genre

Module 4: Plot

Module 5: Character

Module 6: Theme

Module 7: Word Choice

Module 8: Dialogue

Module 9: World Building

Module 10: Language Building

Module 11: Narrative Positioning & Description over Exposition

Module 12: Concept Mapping

Module 13: Constraint and Creativity

Module 14: Defamiliarization & NLP

Module 15: Suspense, Tension, Hooks & Cliffhangers & LOCK

Module 16: Editing

Module 17: Drafting your Novel with ChatGPT

Module 18: Author Function-Social Media Guide



http://www.iain-mckinnon.co.uk/creative-writing-course.html


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