Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
science fantasy
worldbuilding
setting
Phoenix
S F Said
sci-fantasy
detailed snapshot
evoking emotion
word choice
perspective
describing character emotion
world theme
overarching detail
contrast
project
One of the great pleasures of science fantasy is exploring strange new planets. In this lesson we model a passage in which the protagonist, Lucky, arrives at a fancy-pants planet called Leo 5, much cooler than the backwater suburban moon where he came from. The language in this lesson is simple; the challenge is in imagining the required level of detail. We explore the technique of building planets with a single defining quality.