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.
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World-Building: Building Character from Situation/Conflict
Recap: Last week we used the setting to build your characters. One key take-away was that each setting created a unique sense of character to inhabit it. Your setting often helps you set the genre you’ll be writing in and the world around it will form the characters. Today, we’ll address building your characters from …
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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 Characters from Genre
Recap: Last week we covered building your world from the world-out. Topics included defining where your world is in its evolution on your novel’s timeline and where your world began. Today will continue along this path as you fill your world with characters. Definitions: Archetype: a very typical example of a certain person or thing. …
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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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Kenneth W. Myers 