Worldbuilding: Discover the Fantasy Narrative

Overview

“Once you've asked yourself the question of a genre from which to start imagining your fictional world, there are many different routes you can take. Here I will tell you about the three most common: each one is related to one of the essential components of any story.”

In this video lesson Alberto Chimal addresses the topic: Imagine your world: environment, time and characters, 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

“Imagine your world: environment, time and characters Let's start with a clarification that I promised in the previous lesson. In this course we will be using the word fiction all the time. Do not confuse fiction with science fiction, which is something that happens many times in the Spanish language. Fiction is any series of invented events, that is, feigned, even if these events have no elements of what we commonly call science fiction. For example, a history series where events are represented that really happened is also fiction because what we see on our screen it is people who are pret...”

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Course summary for: Worldbuilding: Discover the Fantasy Narrative

• Level: Beginner
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• 6268 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 5m)
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• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing