Deep dives into modern screenwriting, visual storytelling, and how AI is reshaping the creative process.
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Rules, history, map, factions, one place to keep the world consistent so the script can focus on the story.
Worldbuilding 101: Creating a "Bible" for Your Sci-Fi Universe
Set the rules in act one. Hard obeys them; opera uses scale and tone. How to choose and hold the contract.
Hard Sci-Fi vs. Space Opera: Knowing Your Sub-Genre
Using the character who doesn't know so the audience can learn, and so the surrogate is a character, not a device.
The "Fish Out of Water": Introducing Audience Surrogates
Give them a logic and a way to connect, so they feel like beings, not props.
Writing Non-Human Characters: AI, Aliens, and Creatures
Set the rules early. Fixed, branching, or rewrite, and don't break them. How to keep time travel coherent.
Time Travel Logic: Creating a Consistent Set of Rules
Speculative fiction rooted in Black and Indigenous perspectives, research, center the perspective, let culture drive the world.
Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism: New Perspectives