New Writing South – Writing Different Worlds

This course is about worldbuilding across multiple genres. You’re going to take a look at the places that are important to you and your writing and gain an understanding of how worldbuilding works.

What You’ll Learn In Writing Different Worlds?

Welcome to Writing Different Worlds

• Welcome Video
• Welcome
• How to Get the Most Out of this Course
• How to Navigate this Course
• Setting an Intention

Examples

• Examples from Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Crime, and Others

Week One: Place and You

• Week One
• Lesson One: What is Place?
• Lesson Two: Places in Other Stories and Other Lives
• Lesson Three: Sense of Place, the Objective Correlative and Writing Live
• Lesson Four: Places in Your Story, Places in Your Life

Week Two: The World of Your Story

• Week Two
• Lesson One: What is a World?
• Lesson Two: Worldbuilding Basics
• Lesson Three: Different Worlds – or are All Worlds the Same?
• Lesson Four: Place as Character

Week Three: Subjectivity and Authenticity in Storytelling

• Week Three
• Lesson One: What are Subjectivity and Authenticity?
• Lesson Two: How Do People Experience Places Differently and Why?
• Lesson Three: How Do You Build a World that Feels Authentic to the Reader?
• Lesson Four: Designing Your Research Project

Week Four: How Deep is Your Knowledge of the Places in Your Work?

• Week Four
• Lesson One: Is it OK to Write About Places You’ve Never Visited?
• Lesson Two: Visits and Their Effect
• Lesson Three: The Places You’ve Inhabited vs The Places You’ve Been
• Lesson Four: The Importance of Research

Week Five: Inhabiting More than One Space

• Week Five
• Lesson One: Belonging to Different Worlds
• Lesson Two: Characters Inhabiting More than One Space Psychically or Physically
• Lesson Three: Life Roles and Life Audit
• Lesson Four: Challenges for Narrative Structure

Week Six: Working in Different Genres

• Week Six
• Lesson One: What if You Want to ‘Inhabit’ More than One Genre?
• Lesson Two: Literary Fiction vs Crime
• Lesson Three: Memoir vs Fantasy
• Lesson Four: Dystopia vs Comic Fantasy / Sci-Fi

What Next?

• Here’s What We’ve Covered and Next Steps
• You and Your Course
• Resources
• What You Can Do Next at New Writing South

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