Today's Topic – Preventing your fantasy world from blowing up

I am not going to talk about preventing errors in stories or fatal world building flaws that will lose you, readers.  I am talking building a story towards a world apocalypse, but then adverting it.

It is a popular story type.  It creates a lot of the same tension as destroying the world.  However, you are not left with a post-apocalyptic world.  Now you might have guessed from episode 86, 87, and 88.  Michael and I love fictional worlds blowing up and consuming post-apocalyptic fiction.

You might have even cried a bit if you performed the Worldbuilder task for those episodes and destroyed your world, to that we say, “Thanks!”

However, in today's episode.  We will be talking about why it might be a useful story to create.  People do seem to love them.  They are thrilling.  And it might be possible to make them without turning the story into a horrible disaster trope.

However, as a show, we would like to encourage you to consider really just blowing the hell out of it.  It really is quite fun and therapeutic.

Enjoy the episode and comment below to tell us what we missed. Podcast Show Flow

• Is your story about the apocalypse the prevention of said event?
• Why prevent the Apocalypse?
• Great story
• Nature of Mankind.
• How to prevent? Characters, plot devices that will kill off your world as it is known.
• What are the consequences of prevention?

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Michael's Resources

Episode 86: First you made your fantasy world… now blow it up part 1 Episode 87: First you made your fantasy world… now blow it up part 2 Episode 88: First you made your fantasy world… now blow it up part 3

Movies

Independence day Armageddon Deep Impact Rock Jocks Dr. Strangelove Fail Safe Eye in the Sky Core 2012

Games

Pandemic Plague Inc Dig Asteroids

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White Wolf’s Werewolf the Apocalypse

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Images and quotes

The Worldbuilding Task for the Day

Write an apocalypse prevention tale, or turn it into a failed prevention and email us a copy.

The Real World task for the day

Spring cleaning in preparation for the enjoyment of the season forthcoming rebirth

The Tease

The basics of turning your passion into a business?

Please take a moment and comment below on this episode.  I look forward to hearing from you about your Fantasy Worldbuilding adventures

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