- New this year at SavvyAuthors!
- New!!
- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Premium Members $30 & Basic Members $40
Register by March 20th and save $5, use code WORLDBUILDINGVOSS2023 at checkout!
- Category
- Characters
- Description/Setting
- Editing
- Dialogue
- Genre
- GMC
- POV
- Voice
- Worldbuilding
- $5 off Early Registration Coupon-expires 1 week before class starts
- WORLDBUILDINGVOSS2023
- Class Length
- 4 Weeks
The process of world-building can go on forever. However, using character as your defining touchpoint in world creation can help to tame your creative impulses and focus them in a way that will make your world feel like a living landscape.
In this course, we’ll discuss how to think about your world-building in a way that will keep it internally consistent. Moreover, you’ll learn strategies to filter your world-building through character and the cause and effect of interaction between the people that live in your world.
Together, we can create worlds that readers won’t want to leave.
Syllabus: This is a four week course that will meet twice per week with discussion and exercises. We will cover the following topics:
In this course, we’ll discuss how to think about your world-building in a way that will keep it internally consistent. Moreover, you’ll learn strategies to filter your world-building through character and the cause and effect of interaction between the people that live in your world.
Together, we can create worlds that readers won’t want to leave.
Syllabus: This is a four week course that will meet twice per week with discussion and exercises. We will cover the following topics:
- The difference between elements within and without your world
- Using causal ripples to move between character creation and world-building
- Critical questions for creating belief systems and intergroup conflict
- World-building within contemporary settings
- Layering details about your world into your manuscript
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
