Title: Instructor Notes Module 3
Course: IN 162 Game, Storyline and Character Development > Section: Module 3

Your Character / Your World

As the "writer", you are responsible to effectively plan your entire world. This includes things like the following:

1. What is your world? Is it a nice small island or a massive region filled with many lands? Is it a city? A town? a farm? etc.
2. How did it start? Did you or your main character capture it? Did you inherit it? Did you find it? etc.
3. What happens? Is this a mining area or land? Is this a colony of ants that work all day? Is this a planet that is a site for new habitats? etc.
4. Story Characters... Who can be found there? Are you alone? Are you the ruler and have subjects? etc.

Effectively planning means that you know all accounts and all things about your world. You know the ins and outs and the happenings and can write the storyline based on that. If you do not plan your world, you will never be able to complete the story. That is why this is one of the most important planning papers of the semester! A lot of thought should be put into this and the notes you take should be massive as you need to be able to answer everything above.

After setting your world you will need to plan for a main character(s). Take into consideration the following:

1. Who are they?
2. Were they chosen, born into or take over the rule? etc.
3. What are their connections to their past world? Still active in it? Are they serving as a ruler of new lands for the ruler of the old? etc.
4. How are they connected to the other characters? Loved or hated? Feared? Related? etc.

After consideration for all the above and research/planning please write a plan. This should not be a story so to speak... just a plan. Very organized notes and ideas for your world / character evolution. Plan every detail so you will have a clear path/direction as you continue the semester.

There are many things to consider for this paper/script. The detail should be spent on the main character... tell his story. Discuss his/her life, thought, beliefs and est. Don't worry about connecting the characters together right now... that will come with time!

If you are doing this as a script or Film story, please use the same guidelines!