On Writing and Worldbuilding, Timothy Hickson
On Writing and Worldbuilding, Timothy Hickson
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On Writing and Worldbuilding
Volume I

Author: Timothy Hickson

Narrator: Larissa Thompson, Merphy Napier

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/05/2020


Synopsis

Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and World building, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire.

ON WRITING

Part I: Prologues

Part II: The First Chapter

Part III: The Exposition Problem

Part IV: Foreshadowing

Part V: Villain Motivation

Part VI: Hero-Villain Relationships

Part VII: Final Battles

Part VIII: The Chosen One

Part IX: Hard Magic Systems

Part X: Soft Magic Systems

Part XI: Magic Systems and Storytelling

ON WORLDBUILDING

Part XII: Polytheistic Religions

Part XIII: Hidden Magical Worlds

Part XIV: How Empires Rise

Part XV: How Empires Work

Part XVI: How Empires Fall

EXCLUSIVE CONTENT

Part XVII: How I Plan a Novel

Dozens of side notes and extra thoughts on all these wonderful stories

Reviews

Goodreads review by T.A. on December 13, 2019

I love the Hello Future Me YouTube channel this author runs and really appreciate his insight into what makes a good story and characters, so even though I knew this book was just going to be basically all the videos he's made in his On Writing series in written form, I was still excited to read it.......more

Goodreads review by Isabella on May 30, 2019

I absolutely love this book. I am doing English and was struggling at the creative writing section. This book is absolutely chock full of helpful tips without shoving it down your throat or sounding preachy. Easy to reference and I am recommending to my entire class as is helping elevate my writing......more

Goodreads review by Carl on February 08, 2025

This book does happily focus on the aspects of written that contains to fantasy stories. But there is a lot to take away from the book, regardless to the story you’re writing. It has many illness that would work well in any form of fiction. I definitely feel like I’ve learned a lot from this book an......more

Goodreads review by Jacob Stone on June 08, 2019

A book for the speculative fiction writer, everything I could have wanted. Based on the authors YouTube video essay series of the same title, the author created a reference book of all the essays. Having followed the channel for nearly 2 years now, it is apparent that his wisdom and knowledge is fan......more

Goodreads review by Prithviraj on December 05, 2021

So... I have mixed feelings about this one. YouTuber Hello Future Me has a series on his channel called 'On Writing' and this book is more or less a transcript of that series. I would not recommend this book to someone who has read books about writing before. They won't derive much utility from this o......more