On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I - Timothy Hickson

\nWriting advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, 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.\n \n \n\n \nON WRITING\n \n \n\n \nPart I: Prologues\n \nPart II: The First Chapter\n \nPart III: The Exposition Problem\n \nPart IV: Foreshadowing\n \nPart V: Villain Motivation\n \nPart VI: Hero-Villain Relationships\n \nPart VII: Final Battles\n \nPart VIII: The Chosen One\n \nPart IX: Hard Magic Systems\n \nPart X: Soft Magic Systems\n \nPart XI: Magic Systems and Storytelling\n \n \n\n \nON WORLDBUILDING\n \n \n\n \nPart XII: Polytheistic Religions\n \nPart XIII: Hidden Magical Worlds\n \nPart XIV: How Empires Rise\n \nPart XV: How Empires Work\n \nPart XVI: How Empires Fall\n \n \n\n \nEXCLUSIVE CONTENT\n \nPart XVII: How I Plan a Novel\n \nDozens of side notes and extra thoughts on all the wonderful stories we discuss\n