The World of Lisacraft

Show Notes for Episode 1: What is World Building?

00:00 – Introduction

00:30 – What’s on the schedule?

00:51 – What is world building?

01:03 – Why do we have to do it?

03:16 – What If’s

04:37 – Lisa’s World Building Rule #1

04:49 – Lisa’s World Building Rule #2

08:23 – Lisa’s World Building Rule #3

12:15 – Recapping the rules, and putting it all together.

15:00 – Creating a world from scratch

18:52 – Goodbye speech

19:43 – and we’re done!

Web Links

Harry Turtledove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove

Alternate History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history_%28fiction%29#Major_writers_explore_alternate_histories

SMERSH
Wikipedia entry for the real organization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH
Wikipedia entry for Fleming’s fictionalized version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH_%28James_Bond%29

SPECTRE – Wikipedia Entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECTRE

Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Self-Counsel Writing) by Crawford Killian. I didn’t mention this in the podcast, but he’s revised the book. I think it’s due out in 2007, but don’t quote me on that.
And here’s the link to his blog.

Fantasy World Building Questions, by Patricia Wrede – http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm
If you’re going to have only one resource to use to help you with world building, then this is it.

World Builder Projects – http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/
This website is a portal, with links to many different world building sites. The links are divided up into categories, like forums and guides and articles, and the very bottom of the page has links to the projects the owner of the website is (or maybe was) working on. (Last Updated in September 2004.)

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