Way With Worlds Book 1: Crafting Great Fictional Settings

The Way with Worlds #1

by Steven Savage, Richelle Rueda (Illustrator), Jessica Hardy (Editor)

Creating fictional worlds is fun - but making memorable, effective ones is often challenging. How do you make something that doesn't exist, make it real enough people enjoy it, and make sure it endures, grows, and keeps making sense to your expanding audience? Way With Worlds offers you a helpful guide to being a better worldbuilder. From basic theories and principles to guide you, to intense discussions of sex, ecology, and culture, you'll take a tour of the best ways to make places that never were. When you're done, you'll have a grasp of worldbuilding that will make sure your fiction is as memorable as fact. In this book you'll *Basic Philosophies Of Worldbuilding - Get the basics and gain a new viewpoint on worldbuilding. *World Creation Essentials - What you have to think of to build your setting. *Magic And Technology - Understand the differences, the similarities, and what they mean. Clarke's law ahoy . . . *Religion - Building religion presents challenges and opportunities - learn to face them and take them! *Sex - Sex in the world's you build is going to involve more than you think, because more than you may think is about sex . . . * Species And Races - Creating species and races opens us up to traps of words and ideas we may not see - avoid them! * Characters - Who are the people in your world? More than you may think . . .

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

265 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 28, 2016

About the author

Steven Savage is an IT Professional, writer, blogger, and speaker on "Geeky" jobs, culture, and civics. From ways to leverage our hobbies, to cultural changes, to what it means to be a geek and a citizen, Steve's goal is to explore - and help out.

www.stevensavage.com - His personal website, with his speaking schedule and latest works.

www.informotron.com - Steve's press site. Find all of his works here!

www.seventhsanctum.com - A site of creative tools for artists and writers.

Reviews

[Timothy Bateson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great guide to building detail into your worlds

This is a fantastic resource for writers from many different industries, but especially fiction. Savage breaks down some difficult topics into bite-sized chunks, which are easy to read and understand.

As a writer, I'm always looking for new perspectives and ideas to help build settings and characters, and that's exactly what I found. Even though I read through the entire book from start to finish, I found myself revisiting sections relevant to projects I'm currently working on, generating new ideas in the process.

Will this book work for everyone? Probably not, but in all aspects covered, but it does give writers like myself a lot to think about, and that can only inspire creativity.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Savage has a pithy style, which makes some of the more relatively dry chapters more entertaining and fun. I think he has an interesting perspective to view the world as an additional character, although I do feel that he underestimates the importance of having really good characters. Good characters drive the story, not an interesting location. I feel that this is almost always true. Still, Savage's ideas about world building are helpful and with great characters this will only improve a story.

[Perrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book started off with too much repetition, but once that straightened out, the content gave me a lot to think about as I go about crafting fantasy worlds for my novels. Already recommended to a friend who had questions about setting in her work-in-progress.

[Jaisen Mahne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A handy guide to Worldbuilding that I found quite helpful. It covers many topics and gave me several ideas to try out. The editing was a little rough and I found that somewhat distracting but overall the concepts within the pages were clear.

[Iván Jirón beirute · Rating 3 out of 5]

He kinda repeats himself... A lot, and in some points just don't go as deep as you'd want him to. Nevertheless is a great tool for starting on worldbuilding.