Worldbuilding With Angeline Trevena
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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If you write fiction in any genre, you need to build your world. Whether it's the cozy coffee shop in your romance, or a complete fantasy world, or a post-apocalyptic wasteland, world-building can strengthen your plot and bring depth and conflict to your characters. Angeline Trevena gives plenty of tips in this episode. In the […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Pen with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.4 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 569 of the podcast. And it is Sunday |
| 0:37.4 | the 15th of August 2021 as I record this. |
| 0:41.8 | In today's show, I'm talking to Angeline Trevina about world building. And remember, world |
| 0:47.4 | building is not just about fantasy. It's important in every fictional genre. If you write about a |
| 0:53.4 | cosy cafe that doesn't actually exist, then that's |
| 0:56.7 | world building, although of course you can go way further down the rabbit hole if you love this kind of thing. |
| 1:03.0 | We talk about tips for worlds and culture and how characters experience it, using maps and where to find |
| 1:09.6 | resources to get them created or create your own, |
| 1:12.7 | mistakes to avoid, and even how to backwards engineer an apocalypse. So much fun. Coming up in the |
| 1:19.3 | interview section. In publishing and book marketing news, so last week I mentioned that |
| 1:27.2 | Audible has now switched over to Audible Plus here in the UK. So last week I mentioned that Audible has now switched |
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| 1:40.2 | and I now subscribe to Kindle Unlimited as a reader because I get through so many books and I also |
| 1:48.0 | still buy them just so you know and it has an audio book which appears automatically in my |
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| 2:03.9 | and listeners, as it truly becomes unlimited in many ways. And I didn't even ask for those |
| 2:09.1 | audiobooks. They just appeared in my app. Now, I didn't really, as a reader, I didn't see an |
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