Our expert worldbuilders provide tips and techniques for adding magic to your fictional world. Explore the impact of magic on your world and discover how much detail you really need.
Part 6 of our Worldbuilding Workshop series. Learn to build better worlds by working with veteran game designer Steven S. Long to create a new fantasy world at Gen Con.
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Part 6 of our Worldbuilding Workshop series. Learn to build better worlds by working with veteran game designer Steven S. Long to create a new fantasy world at Gen Con.
Part 4 of our Worldbuilding Workshop series. Learn to build better worlds by working with veteran game designer Steven S. Long to create a new fantasy world at Gen Con.
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In this fourth installment in our Worldbuilding Workshop series, you'll learn to write your world's history! Build nations, shatter empires, and help to shape the history of the world. By the end of the convention you'll have helped to create an entirely new fantasy world. At that time, veteran game designer and author Steven S. Long will launch a Kickstarter to have a world book written, illustrated, and printed!
Part 5 of our Worldbuilding Workshop series. Learn to build better worlds by working with veteran game designer Steven S. Long to create a new fantasy world at Gen Con.
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We discuss this important subject and its potential impact on civilization. By the end of the panel we should have one or more religions (and/or mythologies) loosely fleshed out, enough for us to know what effect they’re likely to have on the world as a whole.
The final installment of our Worldbuilding Workshop. We’ll talk about writing stories in the world you created and discuss the next steps for our workshop world.
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The final installment of our Worldbuilding Workshop. We’ll talk about writing stories in the world you created and discuss the next steps for our workshop world.
Learn the tips and tricks used by the pros when designing a new world for their stories. It’s a crash course in worldbuilding for both new and experienced authors.
New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole presents his three week program for preparing yourself to write a novel.
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New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole presents his three week program for preparing yourself to write a novel. This set of 21 exercises is broken down to give you everything from character creation to world building, practical plotting devices, dialogue development and character voice creation tools. This program is a practical, kick-in-the-pants place to start your career.
If Characters are king, these techniques teach you how to establish a dynasty. New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole reveals the advanced techniques he uses for creating characters.
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If Characters are king, these techniques will teach you how to establish a dynasty. New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole reveals the advanced techniques he uses for creating characters of depth, intrigue and humanity, who manage to grow in realistic but seldom predictable ways. You’ll learn how to create the sort of characters that can carry whole sagas and keep readers locked in and waiting for each new book’s release.
In a market dominated by antiheroes, is there any place left for the real deal? In this hands on-workshop we’ll build a few true and noble heroes, without making them boring, or jerks, or cartoons.