- New this year at SavvyAuthors!
- New!!
- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Subscriber Member Pricing: $35.00
- Basic Member Pricing: $40.00
- Category
- Characters
- Description/Setting
- Editing
- Dialogue
- Structure
- Genre
- GMC
- Plotting
- POV
- Series
- Voice
- Worldbuilding
- Writer's Life
- Class Length
- 4 Weeks
Writing Space Opera: Epic Tales Among the Stars
Galactic empires. Star-crossed heroes. Battles that decide the fate of worlds.
Welcome to Writing Space Opera, a four-week workshop for fiction writers ready to create
stories as vast as the cosmos. You’ll learn how to balance sweeping interstellar plots with deep
emotional resonance, build complex societies that feel real, and craft unforgettable heroes and
villains whose conflicts span light-years.
Through practical lessons, guided exercises, and hands-on writing projects, you’ll explore what
makes space opera soar — from political intrigue and rebellion to love, loss, and the fight for
survival in a boundless universe.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a strong concept, world outline, and the beginning of
your own space-faring adventure.
You’ll learn how to:
Galactic empires. Star-crossed heroes. Battles that decide the fate of worlds.
Welcome to Writing Space Opera, a four-week workshop for fiction writers ready to create
stories as vast as the cosmos. You’ll learn how to balance sweeping interstellar plots with deep
emotional resonance, build complex societies that feel real, and craft unforgettable heroes and
villains whose conflicts span light-years.
Through practical lessons, guided exercises, and hands-on writing projects, you’ll explore what
makes space opera soar — from political intrigue and rebellion to love, loss, and the fight for
survival in a boundless universe.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a strong concept, world outline, and the beginning of
your own space-faring adventure.
You’ll learn how to:
- Create rich interplanetary settings and cohesive galactic worlds
- Develop complex characters who embody courage, hope, and moral struggle
- Craft plots filled with epic stakes, conflict, and momentum
- Balance big ideas (AI, rebellion, exploration) with human emotion
- Use pacing, theme, and tone to capture the grandeur of space opera
- Build continuity for series-length storytelling
- 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.
Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
