Course curriculum
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Getting Started
- 0. Welcome to Other Worlds
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Week 1
- 1. Other Worlds
- 2. One Sentence Books
- 3. The Five Elements
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Week 2
- 4. Frankenstein's Monsters
- 5. Ancient Worlds
- 6. The Price of Otherness
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Week 3
- 7. World Building
- 8. Alien Races
- 9. Bug-Eyed Monsters
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Week 4
- 10. Uncommon Heroes
- 11. The Story Goal
- 12. Sharpening Knaves
- Unit Test One
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Week 5
- 13. Unidentified Flying Otherness
- 14. An Ideal World
- 15. Ugly Treatment
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Week 6
- 16. Conflicted
- 17. Great Lies
- 18. Crucible
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Week 7
- 19. The Image of Success
- 20. This Chapter is a Disaster
- 21. What a Dilemma
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Week 8
- 22. Sketching
- 23. Human Heroes
- 24. Mirror, Mirror
- Unit Test Two
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Week 9
- 25. Bankrupt!
- 26. The Third Element
- 27. Coming Home
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Week 10
- 28. The Two Selves
- 29. Showing Otherness
- 30. Characters Who Breathe
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Week 11
- 31. I Feel Your Pain
- 32. Wonderama
- 33. The Power of Principle
- Unit Test Three
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Week 12
- 34. Story Beats
- 35. The Pre-Story World
- 36. Here There Be Dragons
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Week 13
- 37. The Golden Age
- 38. State of Mind
- 39. Extreme State of Mind
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Week 14
- 40. Revealing Truth
- 41. Word Photography
- 42. Cutting the Thread
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Week 15
- 43. Images & Concepts
- 44. Through the Looking Glass
- 45. Particular Accelerator
- Unit Test Four
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Week 16
- 46. Origin Story
- 47. Edge Dwellers
- 48. Ordinary Heroes
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Week 17
- 49. Real Dialogue
- 50. The Plot Shall Advance
- 51. Revealing Character
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Week 18
- 52. Dialogue Tips
- 53. Causation
- 54. Utopia
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Week 19
- 55. Pacing Action
- 56. Focusing Action
- 57. Dark Worlds
- Unit Test Five
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Week 20
- 58. Wordsmiths & Storytellers
- 59. Literary Symbols
- 60. Death by a Thousand Lies
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Week 21
- 61. Joymakers
- 62. Overwriting
- 63. Dual Purpose
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Week 22
- 64. Deus Ex Machina
- 65. Writing Your Self
- 66. Swords and Sandals
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Week 23
- 67. The Story as Parable
- 68. A Frayed Knot
- 69. Loss is More
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Week 24
- 70. Ye Olde Mistakes
- 71. Turning Points
- 72. Growing Things
- Unit Test Six