Science Fiction & Fantasy: Creating Unique and Powerful Worlds
Lincoln Michel
1:02:19
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The great thing about writing science fiction and fantasy is that anything can happen. The hard part is that, well, anything can happen.
This Skillshare class will go over principles and guidelines that will help you shape your fantastic worlds and wondrous characters into memorable—and unique—stories. We’ll look at some classic SF/F works like Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones, as well as stories that might be new to you, in order to figure out what makes them tick and how we can apply their lessons to generating our own stories.
This class is geared toward introductory writers, however, the ideas and exercises we'll go over are useful at any level.
Topics discussed include:
- Worldbuilding
- The ripple effects of changes to reality
- Finding new angles on classic tropes
- Getting into the POV of characters in fantastic realities
Lincoln Michel is the author of the genre-bending collection Upright Beasts and the co-editor of the science fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds and the forthcoming horror anthology Tiny Nightmares. His work appears in The Paris Review, Strange Horizons, Terraform, Granta, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction writing in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College.
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What You'll Learn?
- Writing & Publishing
- Storytelling
- Publishing
- Science
- Fiction
- Creative Writing
- Creative
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Lincoln Michel
Instructor's CoursesLincoln Michel is a writer, editor, and fiction professor. He is the author of the science fiction noir novel The Body Scout (Orbit) and the genre-bending story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press) and his work appears in The Paris Review, Granta, Strange Horizons, NOON, and elsewhere. His essays and criticism appear in journals like The New York Times, The Guardian, BOMB Magazine, and Lit Hub.
He is the co-editor the science flash fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds (Gigantic Books), the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated flash noir anthology Tiny Crimes (Catapult), and the forthcoming flash horror anthology Tiny Nightmares (Catapult). These anthologies have included new work from Carmen Maria Machado, Charles Yu, Brian Evenson, Laura van den Berg, Samantha Hunt, and many more.
He was a founding editor of Gigantic and the former Editor in Chief of Electric Literature. He teaches fiction writing and speculative fiction writing at the MFA programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.
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Praise for Upright Beasts
“Weird, darkly funny stories…Michel ably handles modes from lyrical to ironic.” —New York Times
“If you like Twin Peaks, you’ll love this book”—Huffington Post
“[Upright Beasts] reminded me of the absolute wonder great fiction creates”—Roxane Gay
“These stories are mighty surrealist wonders, mordantly funny and fiercely intelligent, and Lincoln Michel is a writer that will leave you in awe.”—Laura van den Berg
"A tremendous debut.”—Charles Yu
“Stories [that] are strikingly assured in their strange, sublime originality…a megadose of bonafide classics”—Fiction Advocate
My Books:
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SkillShare
View courses SkillShare- language english
- Training sessions 12
- duration 1:02:19
- Release Date 2024/03/07
