Step into a world where creativity meets environmental consciousness. Follow one author's journey from Pokemon-inspired creatures to cli-fi thrillers, discover his latest progress on fantasy epics, and explore how childhood memories of Utah's Great Salt Lake transformed into a dystopian vision of our climate future.
After years of sharing writing advice, I'm making the leap every writer dreams of: becoming the author I've always wanted to be. This October, Myers Fiction launches with original stories, starting with an eco-thriller that'll make you question what lurks in the shadows of our changing world.
Folklore is an amazing force to add culture, character building, and establishing the setting all at once. Think about the times you've heard folklore, and half the time you don't even realize you're hearing it. Sometimes it's stories about a ghost at the local graveyard, to ways to have better luck like that pair of underwear that you should probably wash.
In the past weeks, we discussed world-building through PMESII-PT, a military assessment model. It includes elements like politics, military, economy, society, information, infrastructure, physical environment, and time. This comprehensive approach helps in creating a detailed world for writing. Further topics cover animals, vegetation, pre-checks, and building from the world-out.
Recap: Welcome back, my nugs and thank you for checking in again on this World-Building journey. Last week we talked about creating a character from the genre of your story. There we focused on a broad sense of character construction based around your stories genre. This will help you fill the world with the correct …
Continue reading World-Building: Creating Characters from Setting
Kenneth W. Myers 