Worldbuilding: Discover the Fantasy Narrative
What stories do you want to tell in your world?
A course by Alberto Chimal , Writer and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: What stories do you want to tell in your world?
Overview
“The genre that inspired your world doesn't have to limit it: once you start to give your invention consistency, you can create many different kinds of stories in it. In this lesson, I'll tell you what that means and how to do it.”
In this video lesson Alberto Chimal addresses the topic: What stories do you want to tell in your world?, 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
“What stories do you want to tell in your world? In the previous unit we saw what is necessary to start creating a fictional world. Now let's see how to make it grow from the information that has already occurred to you and that you have settled and put in order. You already have a genre that can serve as a base and you already found a foothold in any of the three essential elements that is closest to you. That is, you already have glimpses of perhaps one or more characters, of a time or an environment. You may have even thought in some additional details around all of this. What to do next?...”
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Course summary for: Worldbuilding: Discover the Fantasy Narrative
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Areas
Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Alberto Chimal
A course by Alberto Chimal
Alberto Chimal is an established writer—he has been in this beautiful profession for 25 years now—specializing in narrative texts. He writes stories for different kinds of media, but his focus is on novels and short stories. What he loves most about writing is the human contact that can be generated through stories.
He has published more than forty books, including novels and collections of short stories, and is currently writing the screenplay for his second feature film.
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