On Writing and Worldbuilding - Volume I

By: Timothy Hickson

Narrated by: Larissa Thompson, Merphy Napier

Writing advice tends to be full of "rules" and "tips" which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire.

On Writing

• Part I: Prologues
• Part II: The First Chapter
• Part III: The Exposition Problem
• Part IV: Foreshadowing
• Part V: Villain Motivation
• Part VI: Hero-Villain Relationships
• Part VII: Final Battles
• Part VIII: The Chosen One
• Part IX: Hard Magic Systems
• Part X: Soft Magic Systems
• Part XI: Magic Systems and Storytelling

On Worldbuilding

• Part XII: Polytheistic Religions
• Part XIII: Hidden Magical Worlds
• Part XIV: How Empires Rise
• Part XV: How Empires Work
• Part XVI: How Empires Fall

Exclusive Content

• Part XVII: How I Plan a Novel

Dozens of sidenotes and extra thoughts on all these wonderful stories

©2019 Timothy Hickson (P)2020 Timothy Hickson

Do watch the ytube too

very good info!!! i love this guy and his videos are both informative and fun. that and he reuses some of the jokes. nothing more entertaining than your brain inputting the meme when the narrator quotes it.

Great points that go beyond standard advice

The points and examples put on the table in this book are much more thorough than the vast majority of writing/worldbuilding/analysis content found online.
It's a great title overall, but the narrator was prone to quite a few pronunciation mistakes and made it feel a bit amateurish at time. Their voices were fine, no complaints there, but something that I personally found a little weird was the narrator sounded a bit too dramatic for a book on, essentially, writing advice.

Thank You

I've read quite a few books about writing and this one is top tier. The narration was excellent. I'm 100% sold on continuing the series.

Good writing techniques and good references

Great work. I feel like I have some good ideas for where to start my story

Modern references to story basics

Every generation needs their own references when it comes to pursuing any craft, this book acts like a screenshot of the current decade referencing media a younger generation is familiar with which then makes the lessons more digestible