Fantasy Writing Foundations for New Writers

Welcome to your self-paced, online fantasy fiction course!

Learners build a practical planning approach for fantasy stories by focusing on consistency, world rules, character arcs, and flexible series planning, with occasional notes on dark fantasy.

We will discuss key planning elements and help you begin your own World Bible for planning.

Course Objectives

• Identify the core planning elements that keep a fantasy story or series consistent.
• Choose a simple planning tool and organize essential story information in a usable system.
• Define a fantasy story's scope, central arc, and key character changes.
• Build a focused worldbuilding roadmap that supports plot and character decisions.
• Use a lightweight series bible to track rules, timelines, and plot threads.
• Adapt a planning system as new ideas emerge without breaking core story logic.

This is a self-contained online course with an Action Plan deliverable. You may start and stop the learning at any time and resume at your leisure.

You will be given a downloadable worksheet to keep for your own future use, as well as a certificate of completion upon passing the class.

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Created by Storyteller/Author C.S. Kading