Worldbuilding: Discover the Fantasy Narrative

Overview

“You are going to start creating fictional worlds. Have you heard the word "gender"? It has several meanings, but in this course we will use it to talk about a certain type of story. Here I will explain how to use this concept as a starting point for your work. ”

In this video lesson Alberto Chimal addresses the topic: How to work a certain genre, which is part of the Domestika online course: Worldbuilding: Discover the Fantasy Narrative. Learn to create fictional worlds, from the environment to the characters and time period, for your novels, comics, movies, podcasts or video games.

Partial transcription of the video

“How to work a certain genre To start creating fictional worlds, we must first speak of a key word and concept. The word is genre and it is a word that is used with different meanings to name different concepts and this can get a bit confusing. To avoid problems, we are going to use it only in the sense of type of story. A genre is a class, a particular category of stories related to each other by their content. Superhero movies are in a genre. Ghost stories, martial arts video games, Teen love comics, each one is in a different genre. The genres are defined based on certain common character...”

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Course summary for: Worldbuilding: Discover the Fantasy Narrative

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 5m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing