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World Building?
« Thread Started on Jun 4, 2008, 10:46am »		[Quote]
Well this has nothing to do with fanfiction, but a hole lot to do with the industries that fanfiction is based on as well as the act of writing itself. Wofford Colled (South Carolina, USA) is holding a summer program designed to have students build their own world setting. Tuition is a little over 1000 dollars (including everything but the expense to GET to the college) and overall the program looks pretty great.

Here's a link for anyone that's interested. Wofford College Shared World's Program
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« Reply #1 on Jun 5, 2008, 10:21pm »		[Quote]
If you're aspiring to become a published writer, I think it's certainly worth investing a little to attend some short courses or a semester at university in an area related to writing.

I remember bumming around in my second last year of university with my arts degree after I had already completed all the required units for my language major. I did a full year on creative writing (across the genres, and writing extended fiction), as well as a semester on publishing and editing. Come to think of it, I think I wrote more in that year than I have in the past three years combined.

If the short courses are beyond your means, I have found several helpful essays on the internet. Specific to this topic, world building, I believe the essay "Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions" by Patricia Wrede, hosted by the Science Fiction Writers Association is a good place to start.

Link HERE.

The list of questions is extensive, covering everything from society, politics, economy and the otherwordly. In other words, whenever I feel like I've hit a writer's block, I like to go back to this list of questions because the questions themselves act as a stimulus for me to think more about the world I want to write - and the more you think, the more ideas you get, and the more ideas leads to putting pen to paper... ;D


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[image] - sounds a little suspect though. What happened to a good ol fashioned walk around the block? [image]

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If the short courses are beyond your means, I have found several helpful essays on the internet. Specific to this topic, world building, I believe the essay "Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions" by Patricia Wrede, hosted by the Science Fiction Writers Association is a good place to start.


I love that essay, working through it I've got about three unique settings now (two fantasy, one sci-fi) and it's generally just an excellent guideline.

Hey, perhaps when the membership picks up, we can have a community world-building session? Having taken some courses myself, I find that it's one thing to work through writing on your own, but a hole other experience when you get to bounce ideas off of other people. ^_^


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Living in North Carolina, I can say that in the middle of June walks around the block aren't an option unless you have an ambulance on stand-by to take care of heat stroke. Just today the heat climbed up to nearly 100 and that's not counting the absolutely suffocating humidity levels. Down here, you go where the air-conditioner goes. XDD
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