I’m doing a world building workshop from a literary point of view at AltCity on the 7th of October to the 11th from 7 pm to 10 pm. The entire thing is best for world creation from a beginner to intermediate level. As long as you can write, you are set.
Day 1 will be about GDD’s, the Story and Art Bible.
Day 2 World Building – do’s and don’ts, creating the neverending story, fictional realism.
Day 3, Cartography for games
Day 4, Landscape design, how to convey the story to the artist. For example there was a war here 50 years ago, between the two sides of the populace, which shaped the environment due to magic.
Day 5, Character design, building the backstory and how to make it both believable, and relatable.
The price is 200 usd, with a 25% discount to students. More information can be found with the link below or by clicking the flier. This is going be a lot of fun!
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Daydreams that build Worlds 
I love the literature part but I came across a weird question today ..how many british poets/writers are known to this part of the world other than Shakespeare and ts Elliott? Our students are faced to write a 3000 word essay based on English literature and there are soo few known /introduced to them..
It depends on the school that the students went to before. At AUB, and UMass Amherst, as well as the secondary school of ACS – Amman, we were forced to learn about British literature to understand what American Literatures’ roots are. The reason why the students were introduced to so little may be because of the French system (generalizing here, as I didn’t study under that system and don’t know how the courses are structured) or because Shakespeare and T.S. Elliott are repeated so often that they would be ingrained with them. The amount of times I have taken Shakespeare for instance over the years through the two different universities or in Middle School to High School…
But on the other side, I would say that a lot of different poets and writers are known in the region. I am basing this off of how a non-native would usually learn a foreign language perfectly, in order to become westernized or easternized. And in the process of the indoctrination of picking up the new language, they would need to study the literature or works to become more fluent in the diction use. This stands true with some natives in this region who speak English far better than their equivalent would in the States. But it depends on the direction they are placed in, of course. A teacher is someone who opens doors for people, not someone who shoves them through. So for that, I would recommend attempting to gamify the student’s curriculum for them to make learning more fun and rewarding? Hopefully my old professor Francis-Xavier doesn’t hear this, but if Shakespeare was gamified then learning about Macbeth to Othello and so on would have been much easier to handle. And probably the same would go for the other authors.. alright, I’m rambling.
Anyways, if you feel like it, I would recommend the author Susanne Clarke. She won the Hugo Award in 2004 for the book “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”, and it would be a different type of story compared to the usual curriculum.