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Creating Life

The Art of World Building, Volume 1

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Creating Life

By: Randy Ellefson
Narrated by: Randy Ellefson
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 Creating a unique, immersive setting one life form at a time. This book is a detailed how-to guide on inventing the heart of every imaginary world - life. With chapters on creating gods, species/races, plants, animals, monsters, heroes, villains, and even undead, it draws on the author's quarter century of world building experience. Pointed questions, and an examination of answers and their repercussions, will help readers decide on goals, how to reach them, and whether they are even worth pursuing. Always practical, Creating Life will quickly improve the skills of beginners and experts alike, making a time consuming project more fun, easier, faster, and skillfully done. Unlike other world building guides, the series discusses how to use your inventions in stories while balancing narrative flow with the need for explaining your world. Tailored examples illustrate this. Extensive, culled research on life forms is provided to classify and understand options without overwhelming world builders with extraneous details. Storytellers, game designers, gamers, and hobbyists will benefit from seven free templates that can be downloaded and reused.©2017 Randy Ellefson (P)2017 Randy Ellefson Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing

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One of the most bland and boring delivery of an informative book of so-called wisdom. The 'Information' given is not even really information. It is more prompts and basic suggestions for giving you ideas. Nothing majorly informative for when it comes to actually building a world. Even on the chapter I got up to, "Creating Gods" I found myself falling to sleep or merely shrugging my shoulders and speaking out loud saying "well duh."
Maybe this collection of knowledge would be better delivered by a professional voice actor. Because the Author reading it himself is terrible!

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This audiobook is full of knowledge but was difficult to get through. The author reads it but he sounds like he doesn't want to be there. His voice is flat and dull, making this an utter drag to get through. Buy the books instead.

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