World-Building: Creating Characters from Setting

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 …

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World-Building: Building from the World-Out

Recap: Last week, we covered some basics in World-Building to get you started. If you need a refresher, click here, or at the bottom of this post. A lot of what we talked about made it possible to build the world off of your premise, characters, and other story centralized aspects. Today we’re going to …

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World-Building Pre-Checks: Outliner vs. Explorer, Genre, Characters, Conflict

Writers need to consider their approach to world-building, based on whether they prefer outlining or discovery, defining their genre, crafting characters, and developing conflict. Understanding these factors is crucial for effective world-building, guiding the trajectory of characters, story, and world. This process ensures confidence and preparation when entering the world-building realm.

Writing Tips: Using PMESII-PT Part 5 Information

General Description This variable regards how information is dispersed, acquired, and responded to by your civilization. Media plays a large role in this section of analysis, but don’t restrict yourself to the modern ideas of media. Dispersal Dispersal of information can come in many forms. Print, digital, television, written notes, pamphlets, coded messages. All of …

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