Writing Weekend #8

By now, you have learned the basics of world-building. For your weekend writing challenge, re-read some of the questions I've asked in the previous posts (Setting, Rules, History, Inhabitants). If you haven't answered them yet, do so now. If you have, combine those answers to start building a world for your story. Push yourself to discover …

World-Building 101 Bonus: Setting as a Character

For my previous world-building posts, check out these links: Inhabitants History Rules Setting You can thank Stephen King for this post. I recently read "The Shining" and if any of you are at all familiar with the book or movie, you know the Overlook Hotel is a bad place to be. The basic premise of the …

World-Building 101: Inhabitants (Bonus Writing Weekend #7)

Terribly sorry that this post didn't go up yesterday. I literally had no downtime to write it, so here it is one day late: For the previous world-building posts, click these links: Setting Rules History After talking about the basis for your story's world, I'm going to talk about inhabitants. These are the people that …

Writing Weekend #6

Last weekend's writing challenge was about rules. The week before that dealt with setting. Your writing challenge for the weekend is about the history of your story's world. It's relatively straightforward. You can freehand some information about it, or use these questions as a springboard for more ideas: 1. How did this world come to …

World-Building 101: History

Last week, I wrote about rules and the week before that was setting. This week, it's all about history. As a writer, chances are you excelled at English and history in school. Creating a world for your characters, be it real or imaginary, requires history. If the world you are writing about has a history, that …