On Writing and Worldbuilding

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>On Writing and Worldbuilding</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing to how communication commerce and control play into the fall of an empire.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>ON WRITING</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part I: Prologues</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part II: The First Chapter</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part III: The Exposition Problem</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part IV: Foreshadowing</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part V: Villain Motivation</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part VI: Hero-Villain Relationships</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part VII: Final Battles</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part VIII: The Chosen One</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part IX: Hard Magic Systems</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part X: Soft Magic Systems</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part XI: Magic Systems and Storytelling</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>ON WORLDBUILDING</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part XII: Polytheistic Religions</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part XIII: Hidden Magical Worlds</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part XIV: How Empires Rise</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part XV: How Empires Work</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part XVI: How Empires Fall</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>EXCLUSIVE CONTENT</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Part XVII: How I Plan a Novel</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Dozens of side notes and extra thoughts on all the wonderful stories we discuss</span></p>