Worldbuilding: Creating a Universe from a Blank Page

Room LL21AB

Saturday August 17, 2019 - 10:30 am to 11:30 am


The time has come and you want to create a rich and vibrant universe from which to launch an epic book series. How do you approach such a daunting task - keeping it familiar enough to be relatable, but at the same time different enough to carry the reader away to a brave new world? Does one start with creating an exhaustive Bible outlining the rules, characters, and environment before writing the first word of the narrative, or do you jump into writing the story and then keep track of the details as you go along? We’ll talk about all of this and much more as our authors grapple with this formidable challenge.