Educator Kate Messner explained how to build a fictional world in a TEDtalk video. If you are not familiar, TEDtalk videos feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. The following video reference authors, like J.R.R. Tolkien and J.k. Rowling, and films, like The Matrix and Star Wars, explaining how these worlds come alive.
Why is J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy so compelling? How about The Matrix or Harry Potter? What makes these disparate worlds come alive are clear, consistent rules for how people, societies — and even the laws of physics — function in these fictional universes. Author Kate Messner offers a few tricks for you, too, to create a world worth exploring in your own words.
