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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.
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Try the exercise: Create and explore settings for your novel.
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View all the resources in our World-Building Camp Track.
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Week 4 Discussion

Join this week’s discussion on our forums.
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Join the setting conversation on our forums!
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Young writers, join the conversation on the YWP forums!
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Week 4 Additional Resources

🎬 Webcast:
Build Your Fictional World with Games (with the Society of Young Inklings)
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🎬 Video:
How to Reinforce Your Characters with Detailed World-building
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🎬 Video:
A World-Building Exercise Every Writer Should Try
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🎬 Video:
3 Tips for Writing Magic in Fantasy
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A Guide to Grow Your Novel’s World
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Excerpted from our Ready, Set, Novel! workbook, check out this way to go from micro to macro.
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20 Questions to Ask Yourself When World-building
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If you like checklists, try this one out to flesh out the world of your novel.
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3 Tools for Your World-builder’s Toolkit
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“World-building is a long, sometimes tedious, process, but it’s well worth the work.”
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World-Building a Diverse Landscape
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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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