Building Sci-Fi & Fantasy Worlds (Free Zoom Workshop)

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Discord: https://discord.gg/6aKygQNcDq

Learn how to create immersive and consistent worlds that serve as the foundation for your sci-fi or fantasy novel. This workshop covers key worldbuilding elements such as geography, history, politics, belief systems, magic, and technology, and how they shape your plot and characters. You’ll develop the tools to build a vivid setting that supports a full-length novel and begin laying the groundwork for your draft. Ideal for writers preparing to outline or begin writing their speculative fiction manuscript during our upcoming 90-day novel bootcamp (starts Sep 6).

90-Day Novel Bootcamp Schedule:
Sep 6 Write a Novel in 90 days
Sep 13 First Pages
Sep 20 POV & Emotional Impact

• Turn in first chapter (or first 5k words)

Sep 27 Your Cast of Characters
Oct 4 Exposition and Dialogue
Oct 11 Description and Microtension
Oct 18 Novel Subplots
Oct 25 Character Arcs

• Reach midpoint!
• Turn in first half of your novel

Nov 1 Action & Setpieces
Nov 8 Tone & Genre Expectations
Nov 15 Plot Twists, Mystery & Suspense
Nov 22 Escalation
Nov 29 no class
Dec 6 Revising & Editing Techniques / Final Lab

• finish draft by December 13

About the Instructors:
Conor Kyle has written for Shudder's Creepshow (2019) and placed twice in the Nicholl Fellowship with his scripts “Peter and the Wolves” (quarterfinals, also Launchpad top 10) and The Tube (semifinals). His work has also been featured on special sections of the annual Hit List, Young & Hungry List, Spec Book, and on Tracking Board’s “Best Writers of the Year” booklet.

Rebekah Humphrey-Bullen is a UK based Middle Grade and Teen writer who won the Golden Egg Award in 2022 with her novel Echoes on Titan. She has a first look deal with Chicken House Books, a division of Scholastic Press founded by Barry Cunningham, best known for discovering the Harry Potter series.