New Workshop:
World Architecture
for Fiction Writers
Most worldbuilding advice treats the world like decoration. Pretty, optional, and mostly there to make the story feel “immersive.”
This workshop does the opposite.
For four hours, we treat worldbuilding as world architecture — the structural pressure systems that shape every choice your characters make. You’ll learn how geography, environment, culture, technology, and history function as active forces in a story, not background lore.
This isn’t about walls of exposition, spreadsheets, or maps.
It’s about writing with a deep understanding of the forces that drive your characters to act.
What We Cover
Across the five pillars of world architecture, you’ll learn how to identify and design the pressures that determine:
- how characters move
- what they fear
- what they value
- what they can’t escape
- and what they believe is possible
We alternate between:
- live instruction on each pillar
- guided discussion to clarify and sharpen your thinking
- applied creative writing time so you can immediately practice the framework
This is a workshop for writers who want their worlds to generate story instead of merely decorating it — especially serial fiction writers who need durable, reusable architecture.
Format
4 hours
Held over video chat (Discord, Zoom, or Google Meet)
Pricing
- $250 per person
($50 non-refundable deposit due at time of booking.) - $200 per person for groups of 3–10
($50 per person non-refundable deposit due at time of booking.)
Bring a friend, a writing group, or your whole creative coven.
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have:
- a working grasp of the five major pressure systems that shape every story world
- a clearer sense of how your world influences character behavior
- a repeatable creative thinking framework you can use for any project
- pages of applied writing and architectural notes you generated during class
This is upstream craft — clean, structural, and immediately usable.
What People Are Saying
I recently did a workshop with Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️ on world building, and it changed how I think about setting and environment. Just because you are a contemporary writer, don’t think for a moment that what you’ve been doing in every story isn’t world building; you’ve just got a shorthand for culture that most readers don’t need explaining.
M. P. Fitzgerald, author of A Happy Bureaucracy
Congrats on being lazy?
Whatever you’ve intuited about the geography of the setting, Haly can break it down and show you how to do it better. ‘World building’ is a communication skill. The in-jokes your characters share about the subway, the cultural norms of coffee in the morning, the aspirations of the barista who can’t find another job. It doesn’t have to be Tolkien-esque, but it does have to be done right—and Haly can open that for you.
A few days ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️ ‘s worldbuilding workshop of wonders. Folks, this goes beyond fantasy. We barely talked about it. We spent four hours talking horror and romance and Monty Python, and that was just the tip of the iceberg
Brent Robbins, Writer, “NEURON!”
Haly’s creating a whole new framework for what worldbuilding is and whipping up a new vocabulary for it, too. We talked about setting and genre and culture and character in ways I don’t think any writing seminar I’ve attended has really touched on. Especially genre.
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When this hits the public, you should check it out. Especially if you want to write long form, of any genre
If there’s a world, the Bard can breathe life into it