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Worldbuilder's Anvil

Do you have visions of fantasy world’s dancing through your head? Are you a gamemaster that wants to tell stories in your world? Are you a fiction writer who wants you next setting to be your best? Do you want to understand how fantasy worlds are made? Then this is the podcast for you. You are hereby invited! To join me on an epic adventure to explore topics on my worldbuilding podcast. Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at midnight Eastern standard time. These shows will be specific topic about worldbuilding for 10-20 minutes.
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Mar 25, 2018

Today's Topic How to share the details of your world without boring people to death

If you have ever gone to the Gardul.com and checked out my world tab. You would have noticed, it is very vague. I talk more about the story of my world-building than I talk about my world. It is deliberate. I want to share my world out slowly. It is massive, and to be honest. Most of it has never been made digital.  Listen to the episode to learn why, and a workaround I have come up with to share more. It might inspire you on how you can share more of your world with others as well!

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Create a plan on how you would share your world

The Real-world Task for the Day

Go buy and read The Gazetteer Writer's Manual: Creating Travel Guides to Fictional Worlds (World Building Series) only in kindle

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Episode 152 What Is Needed For A Player’s Guide? http://gardul.com/blog/episode-152-needed-player-guide/

The Gazetteer Writer's Manual: Creating Travel Guides to Fictional Worlds (World Building Series)

Deborah Teramis Christian aka Deborah Christian aka Terry Randall

Bruce Heard

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Mar 18, 2018

Today's Topic – Understanding yourself is the most important tool when creating a fictional world

We always look for tools to achieve things in life.  It is no different when we create fictional worlds. And many times we want the tools to be shortcuts or magic bullets to perfection.  I have found the perfect tool for worldbuilding. It is you! Listen to this weeks episode as Michael and I talk about you, and what you need to understand about yourself for worldbuilding purposes.

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Podcast Show Flow

  • The most important tool on any worldbuilding project: Understanding yourself
  • What is your personality, Check out this test
  • What motivates you?
  • What frightens you?
  • What does your fear sound like?
  • Why are you worldbuilding
  • What context do you think influences your creativity?
  • Understand what works for other people, might not work for you or vice versa.

 

 

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Explore and practice, but ultimately your word is the highest power in your fictional setting.

 

The Real-world Task for the Day

Get a better understanding of yourself, have confidence in what you build.

 

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Episode 135 The Basic Worldbuilding Questions To Ask Yourself When Beginning A New Fantasy Project, Part One

Personality test

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Mar 11, 2018

Back to the study of archetypes that can be stored in your storytelling and worldbuilding toolbox. The Everyman character is unique in the fact that this pattern is not meant to be exceptional. Listen to Michael and I as we talk the everyman character archetype and how you can use it in your

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  • What are character archetypes
  • What is the Everyman
    • Nothing special about the character
    • Does not gain what is needed to solve the problems
    • An empty character that the audience can fill in the voids
    • Variations of Archetype

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Create a doomsayer

The Real-world Task for the Day

Look through your character, share examples of prophesiers in the Facebook group

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Jungian archetypes

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Mar 4, 2018

Michael loves traditional zombie fiction. He can be picky, for example, they must be dead a disease is not good enough for him.  Join us as Michael talks about the zombie stories he loves the most and I talk about the 2 lessons we can learn as storytellers from the genre.

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The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Wargame a zombie apocalypse

The Real-world Task for the Day

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