Star, Planet, Moon: Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers, and Other Creators, #1
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This concise first volume of Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators provides straightforward guidance on how to model the astronomical elements of an Earth-like planet for your storyworld setting.
Author and storyworld creator Matthew Wayne Selznick (Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era) explains the science and helps you through the (basic) math required to...
...Select an appropriate star
...Figure out the best distance for your planet to orbit that star
...Work out the details of gravity, day length, and atmosphere for the planet
...Determine when your planet's moon is full
...and much more... all with just a calculator. No advanced degree required!
Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators Volume One: Star, Planet, Moon is approximately 8,000 words.
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Star, Planet, Moon - Matthew Wayne Selznick
Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers, and Other Creators
Volume One: Star, Planet, Moon
by
Matthew Wayne Selznick
Mathematical Review: Jafsica, Steven Rehn
Published by
MWS Media
Long Beach, California, USA
Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers, and Other Creators Volume One: Star, Planet, Moon
Published by MWS Media
First publication: March, 2012
Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2013 Matthew Wayne Selznick
Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creatives Volume One: Star, Planet, Moon appeared in a slightly different form on mattselznick.com in 2010.
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Introduction
Worldbuilding — sometimes called sub-creation or secondary world creation — is the task / art / craft of designing and representing an internally consistent and realistic setting for use in fiction, video or tabletop role playing games, movies, comics, a transmedia experience… really any type of storyworld.
In each concise volume of Worldbuilding for Writers, Gamers and Other Creators,
and in the omnibus edition, you'll find explanations, tools and resources to give your setting a level of verisimilitude that inspires the willing suspension of disbelief on the part of your audience.
We'll work with a top down
approach both literally and in terms of the subjects we cover. As we select an appropriate star, muse on the size, mass, and orbit of your world, its geography, climate, weather, biomes and habitats for life