Worldbuilding for Fiction and Games
Lecture-based course exploring core worldbuilding choices—origin/time, plausibility, governance/currency, and character archetypes—through discussion and short exercises.
Paid once.
- Level
- Beginner
- Ages
- 13–18
- Duration
- 60 min
- Classes
- 1 / Week
- Weeks
- 4
- Not satisfied after the first class? Full refund.
- Pay weekly, or upfront
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Class Experience
A primarily lecture-focused course that guides students through four key decisions necessary for designing a fictional world: calendar/origin, plausibility and conflict, government and currency, and heroic/villainous archetypes. Each week includes a lecture, group discussion, and a short exercise applying topics to the student's own fictional place, plus a suggested independent activity to continue development.
Learning Outcomes
Identify key decisions required when creating a fictional world
Apply research to increase plausibility of fictional elements
Analyze how government and currency affect societies
Develop character traits and arcs within a world context
Learning Needs Support
ANXIETYDYSLEXIA_FRIENDLYDYSCALCULIA_FRIENDLYDYSGRAPHIA_FRIENDLYAUTISM_FRIENDLY
anxiety; dyslexia_dyscalculia_dysgraphia; asd
Prerequisites
Materials needed:
I post to our classroom bulletin board, each of the following items on a weekly basis:
Each week's Live Session lecture notes
links to various articles pertaining to writing
Each Week's Suggested Activity PDF
Various additional links to useful tools for World Building
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Meet your Instructor
An author and experienced gamemaster with more than two decades of worldbuilding practice, this instructor brings a passion for narrative depth and playable systems. Currently completing a three-novel historical fiction project and long-time reader of classic fantasy, the educato…
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