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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Hello, everybody! Welcome to the final day of Science Fiction writers Week.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: It is so good to see you here again, just to make sure that everything is working. If you can see and hear me. Could you please put your name in the chat, and then where you are joining us from.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: and we'll get started in just a second.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Hi, Tp. Wood is coming from Nova Scotia raven from Georgia. Good to see you both.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Just give everyone a second to jump in.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Hello! Hello!

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Hi, Alexis! Hi, Arthur! Good to see you both.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Eurena. Oh, nice to see you as well.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: All right. Well, we will go ahead and get started because we've got a lot to cover in this session. As always, we start with just a little bit of housekeeping.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: So first, st

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: today's replays to the replays for the premium workshop. We're going to be added to the premium hub page after the processing is done by zoom so don't worry.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Might take, you know, a couple hours or so to get those up there, but they will be added as soon as they're done, and then Monday, through Thursday's replays can be found on the original Hub page, and then all of the replays will be added to the pro writing Aid Community page after September 20.th

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: If you'd like to keep the conversation going about Science fiction, please feel free to visit community.prowritingaid.com, and then navigate to the prowriting Aid live section where we will keep chatting until this week is through.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: We'd also really love for you to share your feedback on this event as well as basically everything that happened throughout this week. I'm gonna drop the link to the type forum in the chat. It's really really helpful for us to hear what went well, what you could.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: You know what you'd like to see next time? This feedback is really important, because we can take it to the rest of the team and talk to them about why it's so important for us to keep doing these events. So please please share what you enjoyed. Share. If you have any ideas for speakers or things that you would like to see happen for our next writers. Event we will be hosting. A horror event in in October. So please share your thoughts, feedback.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: If you have any speaker recommendations any like that. Anything like that. Please feel free to share on the type form, and that will help us out as we continue to plan and bring these events to you

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: and then just a couple of reminders for this session. If you have the questions for me, please feel free to put them in the QA box. But if you'd like to chat with other users, please use the chat. Now with this session specifically, we're going to be working through 5 different prompts. And as we work through each of those different prompts, you are welcome to write those and share those in the chat. Excuse me, my dog is sneezing back. You are welcome to write those and share those into the chat specifically.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: So in the chat you'll be able to share your prompts after you finish them and share your responses. So make sure that you have something ready to write with whether that is, you know your keyboard, and you want to write and share in the chat, or if you want to take notes in a different document or handwritten, and not share anything, is totally totally fine. But for this session, if you would like to share, we will be asking you to use the chat, not the QA. But if you have any specific questions, feel free to drop those into the QA.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay, I think with that being said, let's jump into this workshop. So we are going to be talking about. Sorry. This is Knox behind me. He's having the time of his life.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: we are going to be talking about building your Science Fiction world, and we're going to be working through a series of prompts that are designed to help you think about different aspects of your world. And how it might come together to create a really really immersive experience for your readers. And so, as I'm sure so many of you know, world building is where you're creating a living, breathing environment for your story that should feel just as real to your readers

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: as the world that we actually live in. And world building is one of the best parts of writing for science fiction and fantasy. Because you're just really getting to think about and create that world from scratch.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: and your readers are hungry for it. Readers in Science Fiction and Fantasy want that escapism. They want to go to a different place, and they want to feel like they've journeyed somewhere else. But that also means that you have a lot of responsibility as a sci-fi author, because world building can make or break your book. If your world doesn't feel as real as your readers are hoping for, they might just feel like they're kind of being

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: sold, something that they weren't looking for, or they might be looking for a different type of Science Fiction book. That, again, creates that kind of immersive experience for them. But, on the other hand, if you're able to construct a world that's believable and multi-layered, your readers are going to sink right into it.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: So today, we're gonna take you through 5 prompts to talk about all the ways that you can kind of increase the level of world building in your book, and really just make it feel as alive as possible. Now, one of the best things about world building is that you can build a world that both exists on the page and then exists far beyond it. So creating a living and breathe breathing environment is not just about what your readers will actually experience when they're reading.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: but also about all of the other layers that go into making something feel very, very real. So thinking about things like how to use language or what's the history of the the world, even though that might not play into every single kind of piece on the page. It might go into things like, well, what do people say in dialogue when they're upset, or when they're excited about something? Or what are the statues that litter.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: you know the the main city, or what is the main city called? Does that have a history so kind of all of those pieces? Even if the action is not playing out on the page, can create a world that's very immersive for your readers.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: So here's a couple of examples of words, worlds that do that, and books that do that. So, for instance, in dune, the world of Arrakis is a really harsh and unforgiving environment. It's dominated by these massive sand dunes, this extreme heat and the author of Dune Herbert, has really meticulously crafted a world where all of the the

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: the kind of elements of dune are lived out by the people who are on or excuse me. All the elements of Arrakis are really lived out by all the people there. So you can see this in the creatures. The sand worms that they're running away from. You can see this in the the suits that they have to wear in order to process water. You can see this in the language that they use to honor each other, and that language bit varies from world to world as well as there are different people on different worlds.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: And so this kind of epic scale of world building really creates this immersive environment, this immersive kind of visual and mental feast for the readers who are really kind of deeply, deeply picturing what's going to happen in this place, and what this place looks like. And actually, you see, with something like dune that Herbert's done such a great job of just creating this description that, as various movie adaptations come out. People, you know, agree or disagree

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: with how something is adapted because they've had such a deep visualization of what's going on there.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: And again, there are things that happen both on the page within the due novels, but also things that happen just in the general world, in the general kind of world that's been created both on arrakis and on the other planets that again feed into this understanding of what's going on and create this really immersive experience for people.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: We can still also see this in Gethen. So the left hand of darkness. There's a place where it's a place where there's again this kind of icy, frigid landscape. There's the physical environment. But then there's the sociopolitical aspect of this world that's shaped by the the the inhabitants there who are capable of shifting between male or female identities. So everything that's happening on this world is shaped by what?

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: What the people on that world can do what the environment looks like, and that plays a huge role into determining what's going to happen. And the conflict that exists on the page. So all of this is a really really good way of thinking about the ways that world building can really, really impact what's going on in your story.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: So we're going to work through. As I mentioned, 5 different writing prompts. And the way this is going to work is, I'm going to give you different writing prompts. That allow you to think about building an immersive world in a bunch of different ways for each prompt. You are welcome to read your read the prompt. Write down your answer. You can put that in a document. You can put that on a piece of paper, and then at the end. I'm going to ask everyone

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: to share in the chat, and then we're going to be able to take inspiration from each other and hopefully just get some new ways to think about our world again. Some of what you have here might be used in your script or in your manuscript. Some of it might not. But it's all these just different ways of thinking about all of the very many layers that could exist in your world.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: so we're gonna start off with a fairly fairly easy one. But the 1st is just to describe your novel's word in 50 world words, your novel's world in 50 words or less tongue. Twister. So this is just a quick exercise to get you warmed up and thinking about world building as we go through our next series of exercises. For this. You can describe a world that you're working on right now in a story

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: you can choose to create a brand new world for you know something you haven't worked on. You could even do this with an existing world that you know very well. If you just want to kind of practice going through these prompts with something that really that that, you know. Well, so something that's been published already. So

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: what's gonna work. What's gonna happen is I'm gonna start this 5 min timer. You'll have 5 min to work on this exercise, and when they're done you can put it in the chat, and then we'll share out at the end of that. So again, our 1st prompt is to describe your novel's world in 50 words or less and then you can share it in the chat when you're done, and we can take inspiration from each other.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay, your 5 min for this 1st prompt is starting now.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay, that is our 1st prompt. Let me get back to that. That is our 1st prompt if you would like, you can drop that into the chat. So, Ed said. He's not gonna reveal too much. It's totally fine but that the

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: is about how somebody faces discrimination, trying to create an ftl world and once successful faces discrimination. Other exoplanet worlds.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Tony's world is all about space. The year is 2184, and much of humanity has left Earth and moved to settlements and space stations throughout the solar system, much as it of it operates, as our society does with the constraints of artificial living environments. So this is a really great example of a world where you're building off of you're kind of thinking about what could happen when, if this happens so, how would society evolve to be in

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: How would our existing society involve having to be in this other place in this new place. Let's see what else we've got. Dennis Carter's world is a habitable moon orbiting a gas giant in a binary star system very cool, tidally locked. The colony only inhabits the out outward facing continent with a high central, High Valley Central High Desert. Excuse me, and wooded valley.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: The fauna is small and vegetarian, and the floor is UN eatable floor. Excuse me, is uneatable to humans. The seas are a Darwinian nightmare, so you can see right away how Carter's world is an incredibly difficult place to live in, right? So you've got a really, really high, a central high desert which obviously deserts are really

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: difficult places to live. The fauna being small and vegetarian means that they're probably maybe aren't huge predators around. And the flora being uneatable to humans means that again, the humans are likely going to have some struggles with eating or things like that. So again, you can start to see how just this very this, like

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: small bits of world building, are creating conflict and creating constraints that the characters are gonna go through as they move forward. Let's see, Tp. Wood, says Samaras, is a city of an ancient civilization on the banks of Lake Turkana. Kenya, soon to be engulfed by a comet that destroys the city, setting human evolution back eons, or does it

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: fascinating? So again, we can see this kind of interplay of real world with fictional something happening to it that's going to deeply affect the people who live there.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Arthur's world is a space truck stop, which sounds so fun where the robots are inhibited to not gain more than a basic emotional state. The story centers around a small group of robots trying to gain freedom while trying not to be found or unscrapped. So again, you can see here, space truck stop is such a cool concept. Where

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: again, the rules of the rules of how robot life is. There are going to going to dictate both of the conflicts. But then, also, how likely how they're going to have to interact with everybody else.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay, great. Let's move on to our second prompt, because we've got 4 more to get through. So we've got a lot to do.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay? Our next prompt is to write down 5 rules for your world.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: and these can relate to any part of your world. So you can dream big, so they might have to do with different creatures. So it can be something like, you know. Actually, what was the world that we were just looking at, where all the fauna is vegetarian. That could be an example of a world. Another one could be, you know, a certain species only comes out at night. Or it can be a relationship. So if you think about you know, like game of thrones, which obviously isn't sci-fi, but you can think about game of

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: thrones is like the Lannisters, and the Starks always hate each other. Or you know, Star Wars classic space opera right? The skywalkers are always great Jedi or the jet. You know there's tons of rules with the Jedi right? Or you could say something like about right and wrong. So perhaps murder is okay in your world as long as it's justified. So or you know, again, like game of thrones. The seasons are really long or the force in

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Star Wars is another great example of that. So

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: and then and dune, you know, like the Harkonens are. You know I live here in Accessbury, and are very war war seeking. So again, there's so many different roles that you can see these can relate to any part of your world. So I want you to dream big here. And if you

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: go quickly through this you can always write more, or you can think about how these rules are going to affect the characters in your story. So, for instance, if it's that day is so so hot that people can't go out except at night. What does that mean? Again in the example of dune? Since Iraq is so so hot. It's, you know.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: inhospitable for people to be out during the daytime. They have to have the suits that then cycle their water filtration and give them, you know, keep them hydrated. Right? So you can also think about if you get through your rules really, quickly, think about the rule, and then how that's going to affect people's life.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay? And so we've got 7 min for this one.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: and then we'll share again at the end.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Here you go.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay, that is our second prompt. So let's see what we have. So Francis says that your place in society is not determined by your family, but by your grades, as you can see how that could create fractured family relationships or difficulty between different types of people.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Those who live excel, live in the top of the society. Those who score low live in Skid Row. Ebt privileges give you health, access, better jobs, better living, and the 2 societies don't mix. So again, you can see within these roles how there are. So there's likely so much conflict that you can have here, and also how that can create so many additional layers. So the different types of privileges are something Francis could think about.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: You can think about having so many different physical manifestations of the kind of top level world, and then the world where people who are struggling are in

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Katharina. Katherina says you have to keep the classes. No one is allowed in the Ice Kingdom without the Prince. So again, huge rules that could create conflict there.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: don't surface out of the water, or you will out the King. You can't touch the octopus's leg unless they allow it, and then I love the Princess interesting, so I can see. Very. It would be very interesting trying to avoid the octopus's leg, especially if it's an octopus with 8 legs that could be really difficult.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: we've got Titans and dragons were driven from this world extras here a thousand years ago. It's dangerous for them to come back. Magic was sealed in within extras here for that time only. It's dangerous, and people are only using magic for power

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: in the ancient world. The 10 paladins protected the greatest seal of magic, but their religious sect is long removed from their goddess, and they don't recognize that lineage, or they don't recognize their power. So again, that's a really really great example of how the lineage coming from this religious sect.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: may have again this kind of suppressed power. You can see how that might create conflict, how people might start to explore that power, and how that group of people might still have a lot of, even if they're not exploring the power, it might have a lot of traditions and ways of thinking about the world that would be different from everyone else.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: We've got. Little does the modern world know the Titans and dragons are actually essential to the balance of magic within extras here, and should this balance not be restored, all hells will break loose. So again, you can see the consequences here that come from the history of the world not being honored.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Tp. Says, time is unnecessary. Language has been replaced by telepathic visual communication. That's such a cool way of thinking about it. And it's such a cool way of thinking about how that would be expressed in narrative form. Quantum physics and ancient spiritualism has become one and the same corporate domination of the world. Food and water supply are imminent, and there's experiential sharing of individuals across time again such a fascinating look at

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: How again language will will be affected in this world. How you know.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: struggle for resources like food and water is going to make people again have that kind of source of conflict in that that argument, or that that sense of

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: entitlement between classes and struggle between classes. Dennis's world is metal poor. They have to use substitutes for metal. So you could see, maybe in that world wood is really valuable because they're looking for metal. Or maybe there are people who are trying to create new substances or new types of metals that they're trying to to create that. Or they're utilizing brick or something like that.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: restricted technology. No, AI, no gene editing the colony is limited to one continent with exclusion zones? You can regrow and renew drugs, can extend life and regrow limbs, so that maybe creates a situation where there aren't as many consequences or where people are, you know, getting in very physical fights or physical altercations because they're not having those those issues.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Noah's world, you eating tomatoes is strictly prohibited, which means, you can will get executed, with the exception of pizza places, as pizza places must have. Again, that's something really interesting to explore. Why do pizza places have the ex that exception? What does that mean for

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: for people who are group tomato growers? What does that mean? If you are caught with a tomato? You're also not allowed to walk into the castle or other royal places without a permit or good reason. So there's hugely restricted movement there which can mean people are sneaking around, maybe to get their tomatoes. You're only allowed to practice one kind of magic at a time or and or day. So again, with something like that, what is the history behind that rule? What does that mean for people who want to

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: practice 2 different types of magic. You know again, what? What so many potential consequences for that Brianna's each continent have their own means of technology that don't interfere with each other. Steampunk tech shouldn't interfere with more advanced tech and vice versa. While it's fine to interchange ideas. It's important that other areas. Don't try to enforce their technology ideas with

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: with one another. So you can see the Stradd. The societies are very stratified here. They have very strict rules on what can, what can

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: come together and what cannot come together? And that, yeah, that sense of kind of what is what is allowed to mix, and what doesn't allow to mix can create potential, you know, like Romeo and Juliet style conflicts or conflicts over resources, there's so many things that could come out from a role like that.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: All right. Awesome work. We're gonna switch gears a little bit to another fun, one and this kind of fun. One is something that can really just color the world and make it feel like you're in a an immersive new place. So for this one. You're going to brainstorm a list of 3 to 5 swear words or other phrases that characters in your world use. You can always go beyond 3 to 5. So if this comes to you really quickly, you can keep going on more than there.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: You want to think about how you, your characters are going to use them in their history of speech, and if you have an existing manuscript, you can think about how you can pepper these back into your dialogue to make it feel like a strong world that's very unique. So think about brainstorming. 3 to 5, swear words or phrases, and then give us some context about which those are used, and then you can also, for even more extra credit. Think about how? What's the history of those phrases?

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: All right. 5 min for this one.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: All right, we have some fun ones coming in. And as somebody was saying, Ed was saying, it's difficult with auto correct in the chat when you're coming up with new words so Ed has dark. It was just a feeling of annoyance. Glork is, which is a Gluck or Zhark.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Sorry, not a feeling dark. Is the auto correct? So Glurk is a glutter, a guttural sound suggesting a deeper level of anger, disgust and physical gig, which means exasperation. We've got Connell's teeth for frustration by the lady with disbelief. Lady, guide me have helped me prayer like

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: let's see what else we've got. Octpi means. Don't worry, little brain. In Dennis's world it's an extension of earth. So the classic profanity exists awesome, so cool

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: the in Albin's world. The worst insult is be called a land man without webs between toes of fingers. It's an insult to call a fellow villagers and Algae eater. Another insult is to be called insult. Excuse me, it's to be called a land dweller, and the celebratory phrase is Big fish day, which I just love. That sounds so great. Okay, amazing, awesome. We've got 2 more prompts to get through. So we're gonna keep moving. Our next prompt is a talking about the history of the world.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: So I want you to describe the world's the most graded and most feared warriors in your world's history, so they might be protagonists or antagonists. So ancient villains! That have a history of the world, or great warriors who people are emulating and trying to live up to. So you wanna think about how they influence the world and led to its current status

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: quo if they're a hero. Perhaps they're going to provide some inspiration for your character. If they were a villain, maybe they've helped to contribute to why, your world is now the way that it is so. Some of the worlds that we've seen that are very stratified between classes. Maybe that's because a villain in the in the past made a choice that made that happen, or maybe it was somebody who was a hero who made a huge mistake. And now the world has

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: created this kind of stratified class system. Okay, so 5 min to brainstorm this. And then we have one final prompt.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: All right, we've got some great heroes here.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: So we had the greatest cultural hero in my world is a person named Bolgot. He was the original discoverer of the lava caves, and taught his fellow hominids how to live there to avoid conflict with the other humanoids who are beginning to make tools and weapons.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: He established the rules for the society. So you can see how again, this would be a really important person in the history. We have Kerfares, who is a Caligula, like Pharaoh, who professes himself a god, but is tormented because he cannot see the eyes of his subjects. So again, this kind of

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: hero villain, we've got supreme Commander Martin, who was the conquering militia leader of the great Civil War, but he was a drug lord known as El Paco to his enemies, and El Generale

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: to his underlings. He's now almost 80, and refuses to step down after 45 years of dictatorship. So again, you can see how that would really really impact the the the world that exists. And even if there's not direct conflict with that leader, how conflict with around that could create something in the world!

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Noah has the greatest warrior, was an archery hero, now hiding in the woods by the volcano. The most feared was once a hero who's now an antagonist, but keeps getting hungry for more and more power, and is well on his way to becoming a dictator. Dennis's Barnabas Carter was the captain of the Odyssey colony ship, its founder and its 1st leader. And the main character is descendants. There's clearly a history there that's going to be really important for the character.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: and our final prompt is to do a little bit of longer form writing and to write the origin story of your world. So this could be kind of like a Biblical story on, you know, on the 1st day God created man, type, thing, or it can be a myth like a Greek myth.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: But I want you to think about your world and kind of step outside of it, and think about what would the myth be like, you know? What would the story that people be sitting around the fire? What would that story be when they're telling little kids to think about how the world has come to be and that can either be a myth that a religion or a cultural group on your on your world believes in, or it can be kind of the scientific history. So actually.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: And you know, billions of years ago an asteroid collided with something and created this new planet. Either way, think about how one specific group, whether that's a religious group, a cultural group.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: would would put this together. Or, again, how a scientific origin story would think about it, and no worries. If you've done this already, that's totally fine. You can either keep working on it, or you can work on another aspect of the world that you haven't had a chance to do yet. So this final one, we've got 10 min to go. So I will start the timer now.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: Okay, that was 10 min, and unfortunately, we are just out of time. We have to hop off so that they can start prepping for the next webinar. But thank you so much to everybody for participating. I hope you save these stories the ones that people have put in the chat are really, really great. And hopefully, this has given you some additional ways to think about world building. And just think about how you can really make a lot of progress on

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: on building your world in small bite sized pieces, so it doesn't always have to be sitting down and drafting for hours and hours at a time. But you can just come in, and you know, do small fun things, and really have a great way of thinking about. You know what's what is? You know? How can I build a world in ways that are fun and and different ways to think about the the exercises.

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Hayley @ ProWritingAid: so thank you all so much. I hope you enjoy your next session with Carrie, and have a great rest of your day your week, and a great Science fiction writers week as well. Thank you all so much for coming bye, everyone all good. I'm so glad to hear you. Thanks, Ed, I'm so glad to see that this has given you some confidence. Alright! Thank you all so much. Bye.