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Science Fiction & Fantasy: Creating Unique and Powerful Worlds

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About Science Fiction & Fantasy: Creating Unique and Powerful Worlds

Introduction

Class Overview

Ripple Effects

Focused Worldbuilding

Thematic Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding Granularity

Discovering Unexplored Ground

Portals into Your Characters

SFF without Worlds

Finding New Story Angles

Putting It All Together

Conclusion

What You Will Learn?

  • The great thing about writing science fiction and fantasy is that anything can happen. The hard part is that, well, anything can happen. .
  • This Skillshare class will go over principles and guidelines that will help you shape your fantastic worlds and wondrous characters into memorable—and unique—stories. We’ll look at some classic SF/F works like Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones, as well as stories that might be new to you, in order to figure out what makes them tick and how we can apply their lessons to generating our own stories..
  • This class is geared toward introductory writers, however, the ideas and exercises we'll go over are useful at any level. .
  • Topics discussed include: .
  • Lincoln Michel is the author of the genre-bending collection Upright Beasts and the co-editor of the science fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds and the forthcoming horror anthology Tiny Nightmares. His work appears in The Paris Review, Strange Horizons, Terraform, Granta, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction writing in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. .
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