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Podcast: SFF Addicts
Episode: Ep. 140: Creating a Shared Universe with Richard Swan (Writing Masterclass)
Description: Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and Greta Kelly as they delve into a writing masterclass on Creating a Shared Universe with bestselling author Richard Swan. During the episode, Richard lays out the foundations for creating a fictional shared universe, including what a shared universe is, examples of shared universes (such as the MCU, Star Wars and Discworld), giving your world depth through details, languages, geography and more, the chronology of a shared universe, keeping track of world history, loose shared universes vs. linear shared universes, avoiding problematic plot holes, writing in different formats and more.NOTE: This is p...