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With all of the different guides on how to write, you've probably come across a number of different story structures. So, which one is the best? The answer: YES! But seriously, there are several ways to tell a story in the same way there are several ways to compose music. Some figure these out intuitively, but others (like me for instance) need guides, and here are the myriad ways to shape stories. The basic unit is always the scene: a series of actions (called beats) that always begin in one state and shifts to another with each action. These actions are often in opposition to one another: one character wants to achieve X, and the other wan

Continued from Part 1. IV. Culture Where and when the story takes place affects what culture you end up with (or what culture you'll need to build to support a hypothetical place). This is probably the most important of the four elements because it controls what is possible, what is believable, and what you can work with within the story. It is probably the most fun to write (especially for science fiction and fantasy writers), and simultaneously the most difficult when you need to write a complex original setting. The Basis of Culture Time for a crash course in sociology! Let's break down society, regardless of time and place, into its mos

Guide suggested by LightningLord3 (https://www.deviantart.com/lightninglord3) and seeker3218 (https://www.deviantart.com/seeker3218). The Four Dimensions of Setting: A Guide To World-Building I. Intro II. Location III. Time IV. Culture V. Events VI. Putting it all together. VII. Summary I. Introduction If the opening sentence is enough to tip you off, I realized that over all of the topics I've covered, there's two I haven't really gone in-depth to: prose and settings. I've done characters, plot/structure, genre, series creation, and theme, but nothing much on setting (so sadly, this isn't the prose guide yet: I'll do that one later). So, here's a guide to help you utilize setting. As fanfic writers, many of us