Learn how to build consistent, immersive, and enthralling worlds for your fiction.

World Building is a core skill for all authors, particularly in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Yet, it is a creative discipline where many writers struggle, not knowing where to begin (or where to end). In this workshop, multi-award-winning author T. R. (Tim) Napper will take participants through the fundamentals, helping you to create immersive, believable and exciting worlds for your stories.

The workshop will have three writing tasks of approx. ten minutes each. Napper has run this course previously for aspiring, emerging, and even established writers.

Learning outcomes

As part of this workshop, you will:

Understand how constraints and rules can create fertile ground for the imagination
Understand the importance of engaging the senses
Create the rules for a new world
Learn about the iceberg theory of world-building

Format

This is an online workshop with a focus on craft; it will be hosted via Zoom. This workshop is suitable for fiction writers of all levels and writing backgrounds.

About Tim

T. R. Napper is a multi-award-winning author. His honours include the prestigious Australian Aurealis five times. Napper received a creative writing doctorate for his thesis: The Dark Century, 1946 - 2046. Noir, Cyberpunk, and Asian Modernity.

Before turning to writing, T. R. Napper was an aid worker, delivering humanitarian programs throughout Southeast Asia for a decade. During this period he was a resident of the Old Quarter in Hanoi for several years, the setting for his acclaimed debut novel, 36 Streets.

These days he has returned to his home country of Australia, where, in addition to his writing, he runs art therapy programs for people with disabilities.

For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info

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