Join me on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 1 PM ET/ 10 AM PT for Bringing Your Story World to Life: An iterative approach to world-building, hosted by Jane Friedman. Registration fee is $25
Whether you’re writing sci-fi/fantasy or contemporary, romance, mystery, or thriller, taking a planful approach to building your world will make your story come alive on the page for readers. If you want to immerse readers in a world they haven’t seen yet, whether it’s on Mars, in 16th century France, or in Kansas, it takes solid world-building.
But how do you do you build a world that draws readers in? That’s exactly what I will teach you in this 90-minute webinar. I’ll lead you through the concepts, research, exercises, and tools I use to teach my practical approach to world-building to my clients.
Learn to avoid common pitfalls, tropes, and stereotypes; explore ways to take a universal story theme and express it in a fresh way that will make agents, editors, and readers keep turning pages; build rich worlds big enough to support a series; learn techniques to avoid the dreaded info dump. This 90-minute webinar provides an iterative approach to world-building for your novel so that you can avoid tired tropes, create a world that enhances plot, theme, and character, all while maintaining enough flexibility to explore and further refine the world while drafting and revising.
During this 90-minute webinar, we’ll discuss how to:
- Define world-building across genres
- Identify the top three world-building pitfalls
- Use planning and research to avoid those pitfalls
- Understand how world-building enhances the plot-theme-character triumvirate
- Apply Julie’s iterative approach to world-building while drafting and revising your story
This information-packed class has been developed over the years by a book coach who has guided many authors through drafting, revision, and publication. Participants will also receive my World-Building Workbook to help them flesh out their story worlds.
Register now!
Who should take this class
- First-time novelists who are struggling to build their first story world
- Writers drafting or revising a story and wondering if their world-building is fresh enough to stand out
- Experienced novelists who are switching genre and need a crash course in world-building
- Series authors wondering if their world is big enough to support two or more books
- Querying writers who are getting feedback that their story isn’t fresh enough to stand out in the marketplace
Who should NOT take this class
- Writers who are not open to revising once they better understand the genre expectations and tropes for their story’s genre
- Nonfiction authors (with the exception of memoirists)
- Picture book/Chapter book authors
Registration is open now.
Cost: $25
