The Comprehensive Guide to World Building
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Are You Ready to Create Your Story World?
All stories take place in a story world, no matter what the genre! What is your story world like?
Let THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING show you how to create a story world that is believable, and genre-appropriate as well as appropriate to your story!
This THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING not only explains why you need a story world, but also shows you the many ways a properly developed story world will enhance your story and deepen your readers’ experiences with your writing. It will show you how to use your story world to develop character, advance the plot, strengthen the story structure, and even deepen the theme of your novel.
Then the COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING takes you through the specifics of more than 30 separate genres and subgenres of fiction, explaining exactly what the key elements are for each one, so your story world is exactly suitable, whether you’re writing a contemporary romance story, a hard-nosed police procedural, or a LitRPG story or anything in between.
This guide takes the mystery and the work out of building a story world, with suggestions for tools and techniques to make building your story world easy and fast, focusing on the essential world elements that your story and your story’s genre really need.
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What Authors Say about THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WORLD BUILDING:
Where was this when I was starting out? … Definitely a must for beginners, and a great reference for intermediate and advanced authors, too. It’s definitely staying on my reference shelf, close at hand. —Gini Koch, Bestselling author of the Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series
A valuable resource for your writing library, whether you’re a beginning writer or experienced. —Catherine Kane, Author, Editor, and Publisher, Foresight Publications
An excellent foundation to create your fictional world whether small town romance or galactic empire. I wish I’d read it before creating my worlds. — Mel Todd, Bestselling Urban Fantasy Author
This unique combination of theory and practical advice guarantees The Comprehensive Guide to World Building will become indispensable to seasoned authors and beginners alike. — Jean Marie Ward, Multi-published, Multi-genre author
Praise for this book
Meg has a way of laying out techniques for world-building that are easy to follow. It also helped me realize why I was getting frustrated with trying to world-build. I was going into too much detail for the size of the story. Here other books in this series are well worth it
What I like best about this book is that it is relevant to so many different genres. I think there can be a misunderstanding that world building only applies to genres like sci-fi or fantasy, but it really applies to any genre. Every fictional world has it's own rules and norms on a large and small scale. It's clear that so much thought, time, and research has gone into this guide. If you're a serious writer, this is a fantastic resource or gift to the writer in your life whether their genre is sci-fi, fantasy to thriller or anything in between.