ON DEMAND: Not in Kansas Anymore: Speculative Fiction World-Building

Class Title: Not in Kansas Anymore: Speculative Fiction World-Building ON DEMAND

Price: $45.00 USD Standard

Where: On Your PC or (Possibly) Other Smart Devices

Instructor: Maria Grace

Class Description:

Speculative fiction is EXPLODING in popularity. Can you say ‘Stranger Things’?  Speculative fiction is a genre with incredible range that possesses a sweet spot for all kinds of authors and all sorts of audiences.

From the straight-forward pulp science fiction all the way to epic space opera, this genre offers all that and a bag of chips.

If we look at this from a market standpoint, audiences have never craved science fiction stories on a scale this large…ever.

Audiences want new stories to read and new stories for the screen. Science fiction is an ideal segue from book to film.

We now have entire ROKU channels devoted to speculative fiction, and those channels are desperate to find great stories to feed their famished fans.

It’s why Amazon, Netflix,  SyFy, etc. are churning out remakes of older programs. What they really want, however, is to find something they can make into the coveted ‘Original.’

A new franchise (this could be you).

Audiences are yearning for the next exciting series to inhale once they finish binge-watching Lost in Space (the remake), Killjoys, Black Mirror, and on and on.

If this is what audiences want? Let’s give it to them.

Speculative fiction lives and dies by the quality of our world-building.

In this class you’ll learn:

  • What science fiction is and what it isn’t.
  • The basics of SF Genre Science fiction tropes and making them work for you.
  • Don’t settle for low hanging fruit—creating rich milieus.
  • Why, how and to what result?
  • Understanding how the world’s past shapes the future.
  • The key differences between the ‘strange’ and the just plain weird.
  • Alien worlds require research.
  • Making the world’s rules your friend.
  • Ahead warp factor 1.
  • Rules of space travel.
  • Cussing in Klingon.
  • Dealing with alien languages and words.
  • Kondoing your gizmos.
  • De-cluttering your world building.
  • It’s life, but not as we know it—cautions in dealing with aliens.
  • And, time willing, MORE…..

 

About the Instructor:

Maria Grace isa #1 Best-Selling Author of 23 books. She has a PhD in Educational Psychology and is a 16-year veteran of the university classroom where she taught courses in human growth and development, learning, test development and counseling. None of which have anything to do with her undergraduate studies in economics/sociology/managerial studies/behavior sciences.

 

She has one husband, earned two graduate degrees and two black belts, raised three sons, danced English Country dance for four years, is aunt to five nieces, is designing a sixth Regency-era costume, blogged seven years on Random Bits of Fascination, has outlines for eight novels waiting to be written, attended nine English country dance balls, and shared her life with ten cats.