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The Art of World Building is a multi-volume guide for authors, screenwriters, game designers, gamers, and hobbyists to build more immersive, believable worlds fans will love. The author, Randy Ellefson, has been world building for three decades. The books are now a popular podcast and a growing series of courses at World Building University.
As each book is published, newsletter subscribers will receive FREE templates to use when creating worlds.
The Books
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The World Building Workbooks
From the templates in all three books comes two workbooks you can carry with you and fill out as you need.
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The Podcast Transcripts
The popular podcast has transcripts that are now (or soon!) available in book and audio book format! Each episode is based on a book chapter and the transcripts are grouped that way, too.
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