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Week 4
Building a Strong World for Your Characters (That your readers will want to explore, too.)
Week 4 Exercise: Exploring your setting!
Settings aren’t just a backdrop for your novel… they can establish moods and reveal details about your characters. Try out this week’s exercise (excerpted from our Young Writers Program workbook) to develop settings that add real depth to your story.
Week 4 Discussion
Join this week’s discussion on our forums.
Week 4 Additional Resources
💡 Excerpted from our Ready, Set, Novel! workbook, check out this way to go from micro to macro.
💡 If you like checklists, try this one out to flesh out the world of your novel.
📚 “World-building is a long, sometimes tedious, process, but it’s well worth the work.”
📚 If you’re working on making a big and immersive world for your story, here are some tips for building different kinds of landscapes into your novel.
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