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**Worldbuilder’s Anvil**

Do you have visions of fantasy world’s dancing through your head? Are you a gamemaster that wants to tell stories in your world? Are you a fiction writer who wants your next setting to be your best?

Do you want to build better fantasy worlds?

Then the Worldbuilder’s Anvil podcast is for you. Learn to create the physical world, characters, cultures, kingdoms, races, species and monsters. Learn it all, with some banter to boot.

Join Michael and Jeffery on the weekly podcast that looks at storytelling, game mastering, pop culture and life through the lens of fantasy world building. Subscribe TODAY!

Listen to new episodes every Monday and BUILD BETTER FANTASY WORLDS.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 340 Let's Build a Season Sep 13, 2020

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Today's Topic – And Make it our best friend

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What is worldbuilding?
Has my view changed
Episode 333 Season 2 What Would You Do
Episodes focused on the Spiral of learning
What you know
Theory
Do
Stories focused on the point of the episode
Season one Topic Worldbuilding Basics
What is worldbuilding(2020)? (The nouns of your World)
- People
- Place
- Thing
- Idea
- Action
- Quality

Things

WBT

Build a new world X2

RW Task

Relisten to the first 340 episodes, STAT

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Episode 339 The power in lying to yourself Sep 06, 2020

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Today's Topic – The Bad, Ugly, and Good about lying to yourself

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Lying to yourself is not all bad

The bad
- Danger of entitlement
- Self- Sabotaging
- Can cause errors in decision making
When
- The emotions, good or bad, are absolute
  - I must win this time
  - If I write a book everyone will hate me
- cognitive dissonance
- To protect yourself (Not always good)
The good
- The power in your word
- Alerts you to faulty thinking
How to use it to your advantage
- Tell yourself you are good at it?
- Create Triggers to replace the sick up feeling with excitement

WBT

Create a conman character to bilk you out of money. If you ever meet someone like this character avoid them

RW Task

Gardul.com/audible try out the book Triggers Creating Behavior That Lasts - Becoming the Person You Want to Be

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Episode 338 Star Wars best Derivative Work… Rouge One Aug 30, 2020

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Today's Topic – With a rouge one yell more more more

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Shout Out
Star Wars
- Original
- Prequel
- Sequel
- TV
- Solo movie
- Rouge One
Rouge One the best (Derivative)
- A fathers Love for Erso
- Really shows the war aspect of Star Wars
- Saw
- Puts the War into Star Wars

WBT

RW Task

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Episode 337 Politics in Fantasy Aug 25, 2020

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Today's Topic – An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere

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Politics are a part of your life and not just the annoying politicians and activist on Twitter.

Divisions in groups allow for readers to draw connections

Things that are like our world

Highlights the differences

Politics are about control

Dos

Use to show a person's place in society
Address themes in your work
The battle between the individual/societal good

Don'ts

Water Down into memes
- The meme is cultural information and a theme is a value associated with the idea
Don't Preach / Show
Don't talk about the moment

Worldbuilding Task

Create a world twitter to annoy your characters

Real-World Task

Learn proper cleaning techniques to help you feel clean after writing politics and keeps you safe from viruses.

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Episode 336 It time really progressing? Aug 17, 2020

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Today's Topic – Non-linear time keeping in worldbuilding and fiction

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Inspired by Wheel of Time and a power outage
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Time is more like a river than we give it credit
- It digs it way ahead through the path of least resistance
- Never stops eroding
- Can seem to temporarily defy even gravity… but still loses
- The destruction can be shift
A brewing battle of advanced civilizations 12,000 years ago
The human strength of memory
Concept in Mythology

WBT

Create your own pockets

RW Task

Seize Control of Space and Time

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Episode 335 The Days of Our Fantasies Aug 09, 2020

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Today's Topic – Long live the Soap Operas

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What is a soap opera?
- a television or radio drama series dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters.
Have Soap operas taken over genre fiction?
- The first one I noticed Buffy the Vampire TV Show
- - Everything with a Vampire all Whedon TV
- All CW SciFi and Supernatural
- Lost
- Battle Star Galactica
Is it by default good or bad?
Are all long stories ultimately going to move in this route?

WBT

Days of your Character's Lives

RW Task

Virtual Volunteering During The COVID-19 Crisis

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Episode 334 Interview With J.B. Lion Aug 02, 2020

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Today's Topic – Welcome J.B. to the forge

A stellar student in high school and college, Mr. Lion always had a knack for creative and professional writing. Those traits would come in handy as he spent most of his adult years a project manager, travelling the world implementing transit technology.

During this time, he never stopped writing short stories which he kept in several notebooks over a span of 15 years. The primary theme of these stories culminated from a simple game he would play with his two sons to pass the time. The game centered around three different societies, each one trying to outmaneuver one another for control of the universe.

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Tell us about your latest work?
How do you connect your worldbuilding back to The Story?
When did you know you had a love for worldbuilding?
Tell a STORY about how you knew you love building worlds.
What was your "I can" experience?
Tell a STORY about it.
Biggest achievement to date?
Tell a STORY of your biggest achievement to date.
When you learned of it.
What was its impact on your progress as an author and a worldbuilder?
What real world advice do you wish you had known sooner?
Tell a quick STORY about some task that could have gotten you started sooner as a writer

Gauntlet round: (All fast answers)

What held you back from sharing your world(s)?
Favorite types of fantasy worlds: alien, earthlike, or earth-based?
What is your favorite time period for fantasy settings?
What is the most important habit or skill in creating a world?
What tool(s) could you not work without?
What is one resource you would offer to a Worldbuilder starting down your path?
If you ended up in the (a) world you created. What would be the first thing you would do? (Please keep it as clean as possible.)

WBT

Check out more with JB Lion, Twitter, or Instagram

RW Task

Check out more with JB Lion, Twitter, or Instagram

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Episode 333 Season 2 What Would You Do Jul 26, 2020

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Today's Topic – From one season to Multiple Seasons

How can you get new clients during COVID? Read about how I use attraction marketing to generate leads and build trust with my audience to get new clients.

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Based on the idea of Small Teaching by James Lang
Just starting the planning
Season based on Worldbuilding Topic
- Theory
- How-to
- Related Media
- Life and mindset support to aid the topic

WBT

Rework all your plans again

RW Task

Help us plan the future

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Episode 332 What is my motivation Jul 19, 2020

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Today's Topic – Motivation if we can do it

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Deep apology
Motivation and its interaction with time management
- 66 days to get a new habit
Michaels Tips

WBT

Rework all your plans again

RW Task

Join the undercroft

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Episode 331 Fallout TV the good, the bad, the ugly Jul 12, 2020

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Today's Topic – Turning Video games into video

PS yes this will be a lead into discussion of diversity in fantasy

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The news
- Amazon, Westworld Creators, Bethesda Studios
The good
- A recent effort like the Witcher
- Rich world
- Dark the different levels of humor
The Bad
- The history of Video games to movies. mortal Kombat
- 76
The ugly
- The wart on my…
- The Mario movie