Jaime Buckley - Advanced Worldbuilding--A Creative Writing Guide: Triggers, Tips & Strategies to Explode Your Writing Skills and Captivate Your Readers.

This is not your typical worldbuilding information.

If youre not careful, you may have fun.

Revised and Expanded?YUP.

Would you like to eliminate writers block?

How about craft outlines in record time?

Would you be interested in developing a world with characters that speak to you, so the whole process of crafting your story flows, with little to no effort?

Thats what happens when you truly master worldbuilding.

What many writers dont seem to understand is a large part of the struggle with worldbuilding is self-inflicted.

Writers try to keep the information contained, organized from its conception, shaped and disciplinedwhen worldbuilding is supposed to be more like a 2 year old with finger-paints for the first time:

Messy and fun.

Worldbuilding doesnt need to be grammatically correct, written in breathtaking prose, or even make sense to another living soul.

Worldbuilding is about creating informational tools.

Tools you will then use to craft worlds, environments, and breathe life into your ideas to astound, excite, and capture the attention of your readers.

Understand that this is not a book about writing per sethough what you create through this guide is certainly intended to serve you in that process.

This guide is about generating raw material and then organizing it. To clarifyAdvanced WORLDBUILDING will help you during the creative process by giving you a system that awakens your natural abilities.

When youre done with this guide, you wont have any choice but to be brilliant and productive. This system forces the spark of ideas and wonder within your own mind, so you can write whatever you want, whenever to you want it.

Why I added to this book

Erica Converso emailed me, a librarian who used this guide to craft her own world. It was exciting to learn that she published four books from that very world. She thanked me for writing AWB and sent me a snapshot of her breathtaking cover as well as a copy of her first book. Her world was beautiful, engaging and complex.

She thanked me for creating the guide and expressed what she loved most about it, and what portions helped her expand what she was already doing. The trigger questions were her favorite portion of the work pushing her creativity to its limit.

I found myself sitting at my desk and justsmiling.

Nerdy, I know, but thats what I did.

This wasnt my first email from a reader, but it was the trigger for me. Its awesome to see a readers dreams coming true. Someone Id never met had used the very same techniques employed to craft Wanted:Heroand succeeded!

I just couldnt help but smile.

Your success is what truly motivates me. Just knowing that this information could help someone get past a frustrating stumbling block truly excites me. To think that a shift in perspective or the breaking of a bad habit could unleash a slew of writing madmen (and women), makes me laugh out loud with joy.

So after getting feedback from readers, I had a few ideas on how to help you get that much closer to achieving your creative goals.

That meant information needed to be added to these pages.

Chapter

Introduction

Y ou have an idea.

Its a brilliant idea.

No really, its brilliantignore what other people tell you.

Unless they already think youre awesomethen you should buy them dinner.

What Im saying is, trust yourself.

All great story ideas have a beginning somewhere. That idea may be a person, it may be a place. Perhaps its an event or something valuable, sought after, or obtained.

Now its time to apply your worldbuilding skills to that idea to make it grow.

The fantastic thing about worldbuilding is it can be likened to a room with many doors. You dont have to worry about what door to openjust choose one. Any door. Once you open that first door, youll find another room with more doors.

Choose another. Any will do.

Continue to open doors and you will, over time, come back to a place where an adjoining door has already been opened.

Youve been here before.

and thats the true brilliance and power of your own creative brain.

Everything connects sooner or laterif you let it.

Regardless of where your first idea comes from, or what it isthis guide is going to show you how to make it grow.

By using a set of clear, specific, perspectives, triggers, and strategies, you will be able to create a dynamic world to craft stories upon. Tales with depth, diversity, and flavor with personable and intriguing characters, breathtaking environments, and fascinating lore.