COLLABORATIVE WORLDBUILDING FOR WRITERS AND GAMERS

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Trent Hergenrader is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology USA. His fiction writing has appeared in such places as Fantasy & Science Fiction The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk and Best Horror of the Year #1. He is coeditor of Creative Writing in the Digital Age (Bloomsbury 2015) and Creative Writing Innovations (Bloomsbury 2017).The methodology described in the book creates cooperative engaging social spaces for writers to hone their craft and share ideasThe book recognizes the desire for todays writers to be both consumers and producers of narratives that can be shared across different forms of media and on the internetThis book promises to make collaborative fiction writing more fun exciting and surprising than writing aloneTrent Hergenrader is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology USA. His fiction writing has appeared in such places as Fantasy & Science Fiction The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk and Best Horror of the Year #1. He is coeditor of Creative Writing in the Digital Age (Bloomsbury 2015) and Creative Writing Innovations (Bloomsbury 2017).The digital technologies of the 21st century are reshaping how we experience storytelling. More than ever before storylines from the worlds most popular narratives cross from the pages of books to the movie theatre to our television screens and in comic books series. Plots intersect and intertwine allowing audiences many different entry points to the narratives. In this sometimes bewildering array of stories across media one thing binds them together: their largescale fictional world.Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers describes how writers can cocreate vast worlds for use as common settings for their own stories. Using the worlds of Star Wars Lord of the Rings A Game of Thrones and Dungeons & Dragons as models this book guides readers through a stepbystep process of building sprawling fictional worlds complete with competing social forces that have complex histories and yet are always evolving. It also shows readers how to populate a catalog with hundreds of unique people places and things that grow organically from their world which become a rich repository of story making potential.The companion website collaborativeworldbuilding.com features links to online resources past worldbuilding projects and an innovative card system designed to work with this book.A theoretically grounded yet accessible guide for students writing groups or players of roleplaying games who want to write shared stories in their own unique fictional world.Part One Collaborative Worldbuilding Concept and Terminology1. Introduction to Collaborative Worldbuilding2. Worlds Worldbuilding and Collaborative Worldbuilding3. Audience and Genres4. Frameworks of Fictional Worlds5. Structures and Substructures of Fictional Worlds6. Catalogs of Fictional WorldsPart Two Collaborative Worldbuilding Projects7. Collaborat

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