May 1-28, 2025

Regency World Building

with WITH Kim Lambert w/a Arietta Richmond
Registration Opens:
March 1, 2025!

Registration ends May 11, 2025!

Class Description

No matter where or when a story is set, keeping it internally consistent is key to reader enjoyment – and that means that the author needs to know a lot about the space that their characters live in, before they start writing (preferably…). The way to achieve that is to go through a world building process at the start – it makes the author’s job easier, and produces happier readers in the end.

This course comprises a series of lessons which walk the participant through the process of world building for regency romance – covering:

  • Just what is world building?
  • Why do you need it?
  • How does that work, when you are writing in this ‘real’ world?
  • Where to start – the decisions you need to make.
  • World building questions.
  • Capturing those decisions, and the research which may result – creating the ‘encyclopedia’ of your world.
  • Maps – understanding where things happen in your stories.
  • Keeping your regency world consistent.
  • Applying this to series, as well as standalone books.
Kim Lambert

About the Instructor

Kim, who writes regency as Arietta Richmond, is currently working on her sixty-fourth regency story, with many more planned for the future. And all of those books have, inevitably, required research… and organization. That research has led her down many rabbit holes, and she has discovered that she enjoys the research almost as much as the writing. Many of her books feature plot elements centered around events at the time, including new scientific discoveries, and things which changed the way that life worked.

And because she tends to write in series–usually long series–she rapidly realized that she needed a process for managing all of that information–be it research results, or the names of people and places mentioned in earlier parts of the series, or elements of her characters’ world which needed to be consistent from book to book.

 There is nothing more frustrating than having to go back and read every word of the previous three books in your series, to find the one line where you referenced something, to be sure that this book doesn’t contradict it…So she designed a process which makes it easy to keep track and which has since saved her many, many hours of annoyance.

She loves creating courses (like this one) which capture some of her research into useful bundles for others to use (it’s an excuse to do more research, too…), and can be prone to providing an excessive amount of information. Learn more at www.ariettarichmond.com

Class Delivery

Class Format

4-WEEK COURSE

Written Lectures: A PDF of each lesson will be available
Video Lectures: There will be a Zoom Q&A session near the end of the course to allow direct Q and A
Pictures: Maybe a few as examples
Audio Files: None
Writing Exercises: A couple of optional assignments

Class Fees

$40 for RFW members
$55 for non-members

Registration Opens:
March 1, 2025!

Registration ends May 11, 2025!

Scholarships are available for members

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