Worldbuilding class Materials

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Worldbuilding Resources

Science headlines

www.sciurls.com



History

Medieval

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

https://manuscripts.kb.nl/

http://mcllibrary.org/

Egyptian
http://oeb.griffith.ox.ac.uk/

African

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/africa/africasbook.asp

Indian

http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/

Chinese

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp



Mythology Resources

https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

https://greekmythology.wikia.org/wiki/Greek_Mythology_Wiki

https://pantheon.org/

https://www.godchecker.com/



Map Generator

https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

 

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Wish Fullfillment Questionaire

What is something about your life you wish you could change?

What sort of improvements to your life would the change help with?

What might it take to make this wish a reality? Describe how the change would make you feel internally, or what specific types of emotions come to mind when thinking of this wish being fulfilled?

What kind of physical reaction does it give you?

 

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Worldbuilding from a WHAT IF scenario

What’s the main emotional reaction you get from this “what if?” scenario?

What are the ways this change would make the world a much better place?

What are the ways this world would be a much worse place?

What are some technological devices that might be created because of this scenario?

What is the sensory experience you would get from the “what if” scenario?

Imagine yourself as a regular person and walk yourself through what that might feel like. What are some unique occupations that might be created from this concept?

What would be the way someone might exploit the alternate reality?

How would it change the lives of an everyday person?

What are some language changes that might take place as a result (new words, expressions, concepts)?

What is a humorous element of this concept?

Would it create a major backlash (desire to return to the past, if possible or a desire to change the current system) in society, what form would that take?

Review your answers above. Picture yourself in this world now. What kind of an emotional reaction do you have?

 

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Magic Checklist

What special abilities does the magic grant the user?

What is the cost of using this magic? (e.g., energy, years of life, curses, etc.)

What is the procedure to using the magic? (e.g, magic wand, spell, thought, etc.)

How difficult is it to use the magic?

How much does an average person in your world understand the principles behind the magic?

Is it widely studied and understood?

Are there limitations on the type of person/creature that can use the magic?

What limitations are there to the special abilities?

How long does the magic last? How can this magic be used for good and evil?

Are the users of this magic controlling this world?

If not, why not considering their magical abilities?

 

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7 Point Story Structure
Apply to book.

Apply overall to series and to each book in series.

Take a story you know well and see if you can find the seven point story structure within it.

Hook – How the protagonist begins

Question – What the protagonist needs to change in their life

Decision – The protagonist makes a choice to start the story

Core – The adventure, discovery, growth, fun

Pit – Protagonist is in the darkest place

Climbing Out – Protagonist is in the darkest place

New World -The events have changed the protagonist

 

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Think of your current work in progress or take the results of your world building exercise from chapter one. Imagine your main character and answer the following questions:



1) Does your protagonist have a clear want/desire?

2) To fulfill this want, is there a goal that is trackable and concrete? (E.g, they want to steal some treasure to be rich, they want the affection of specific individual to find love)

3) Is there something your protagonist needs to learn on their adventure?

4) What are your protagonist's strengths and weaknesses?

 

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Use the Character Creator Worksheet and/or the Non-Human Creator Worksheet and flesh out a couple of characters for a story. Don’t worry about what they may be subjected to later on; just get a feel for who they are in isolation.

Take two characters and make a brief dialogue scene between them. You can set the stage if you need to, but don't do more than a couple of lines of description. After that, just alternate lines of dialogue between two characters. No need for dialogue tags or descriptions. The goal of this exercise is to clearly show two personalities using the dialogue only.

Here's a crude example just to demonstrate the concept:

There were two men sitting on a couch. One had a laptop open on his lap and the other was leaning over him, examining his every move.

"You're doin' it wrong."
"I already said you should be the one doing this."
"Just sayin', it's about time ya learned old man."
"Excuse me---"
"I mean---how do you not know how to check e-mail?"
"I didn't think it was a relevant skill to my profession until now."
"Riiight."
"I hardly doubt you would know how to properly set a carriage on a typewriter."
"Yeah but that's ancient."
"Are you instructing me or insulting me?"
"Just tryin' to get ya off my back."