Worldbuilding with C.L. Clark

An hour and half of worldbuilding! With an emphasis on science fiction and fantasy. We’ll delve into the process of creating a world that matters to its characters and to your readers—a world with a story that couldn’t happen anywhere else. Whether you want to write short stories, novels, or series, we’ll go over the most important components of worldbuilding and how to make them shine in your fiction before doing some brainstorming and cracking out a few pages.

*****ABOUT THE AUTHOR******

C.L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award winning-writer, and the author of Nebula-nominated novel The Unbroken, the first book in the Magic of the Lost trilogy. She graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, reading about war and [post-]colonial history, or trying not to throw her kettlebells through the wall. Her work has appeared in various SFF venues, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tor.com, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.