Building a Better Story World

The basics have been covered, so now we're into the deeper story world design elements! This week, we talk about the key differentiators between your story world and our real one! Using superheroes, friends in New York, and podcasts, we showcase how specifying this content makes for strong narrative universes. It's the first part of our advanced class, so make sure you've got a helmet on!

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In a special episode of Building a Better Story World, Steele Tyler Filipek takes you through each of the prompts from the previous five episodes so that any story world designer can craft a foundational narrative universe from the ground up.

Music - icons8.com, specifically https://icons8.com/music/author/ilya-marfin

Audio Effects - freesound.org

Listen in as Steele Filipek finishes up our five-part series on story world creation basics, fittingly enough, with an episode on resolutions! Click play or download to hear how a famous British secret agent with a license to kill epitomizes how creators can craft satisfying conclusions for their stories in scenes, entries, arcs, and entire narrative universes.

Music - icons8.com, specifically https://icons8.com/music/author/ilya-marfin

Sound Effects - freesound.org

Steele Tyler Filipek--producer, writer, story world designer--will take you on a tour of choices, or those pieces of action that propel characters on their journeys through narratives. Using a popular chef and entertainment icon, your host will detail how to better reach your audience by making willful determinations that reflect the universe you're creating.

Music - icons8.com, specifically https://icons8.com/music/author/ilya-marfin

Audio Effects - freesound.org

Good obstacles make for good stories! That's why this episode is going to delve into what makes a good antagonist, how they can be themed to dramatic struggles in your work, and the basic challenges that characters face in their journeys! Join Steele Tyler Filipek, transmedia producer extraordinaire, as he charts this course with the help of a familiar, bullwhip-wielding adventurer.

Music - icons8.com, specifically https://icons8.com/music/author/ilya-marfin

Audio Effects - freesound.org

This episode of Building a Better Story World is all about needs: the needs of your characters, and how those tie into your broader story world. Listen in as Steele Tyler Filipek uses a quartet of popular sit-com characters to showcase how basic human desires can help tie your audience to your work, giving your story world a strong foundation from which you can build out via any number of entries or platforms.

Music - icons8.com, specifically https://icons8.com/music/author/ilya-marfin

Sound Effects - freesound.org

A popular teenage wizard is the guiding case study this week as writer, producer, and professor Steele Tyler Filipek begins a five-part series on each element of classical structure. Join in to learn how to create a compelling main character that can center an entire story world!

Music - icons8.com, specifically https://icons8.com/music/author/ilya-marfin

Audio Effects - freesound.org

Steele Tyler Filipek, transmedia producer and professor, introduces the concepts of story world building, how it differs from standard storytelling, and how to build a very basic narrative to help spur your imagination.

Music - icons8.com, specifically https://icons8.com/music/author/ilya-marfin

Audio Effects - freesound.org