CURRENT ONGOING SERIES

• Worldbuilding Wednesdays
  A weekly discussion and analysis of personal and general writing processes, from the inception of an idea to constructing overarching plot-points and minute details around it.

  Week 1: Introduction (Defining Worldbuilding)
  Week 2: The Flowering of an Image
  Week 3: Inductive or Deductive
  Week 4: Image to Idea
  Week 5: Deductive to Inductive: A Guest’s Perspective (Aliette de Bodard)
  Week 6: The Map as Theory
  Week 7: The Internal Map
  Week 8: Geography is Destiny
  Week 9: The Big Narratives Stand Atop Those Lives
  Week 10: Writing Outside Your Own Experience
  Week 11: Narrative Maps
  Week 12: Writing Women Characters into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas
  Week 13: Tropes – A Guest Post by Juliet McKenna
  
  Other Worldbuilding Posts

• The Shahnameh Reading Project 2016, with Tessa Gratton & Kate Elliott
  Join us as we make our way through the entirety of the Shahnameh (The Persian Book of Kings), the national epic of Iran, composed by the poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi.

  Introduction
  Week 1: The First Kings
  Week 2: The Demon-King Zahhak
  Week 3: The Story of Feraydun and His Three Sons
  Week 4: The Story of Iraj 
  Week 5: The Vengeance of Manuchehr
  Week 6: Sam & The Simorgh 
  Week 7: The Tale of Zal and Rudabeh
  Week 8: Rostan, The Son of Zal-Dastan
  Week 9: The Beginning of the War Between Iran and Turan
  Week 10: Rostam and his Horse Rakhsh
  Week 11A: Rostam and Kay Qobad
  Week 11B: Kay Kavus’s War Against the Demons of Mazanderan
  Week 12: The Seven Trials of Rostam
  Week 13: The King of Hamaveran and His Daughter Sudabeh
  Week 14: The Tale of Sohrab
  Week 15: The Legend of Seyavash Pt. 1
  Week 16: The Legend of Seyavash Pt. 2
  Week 17: The Legend of Seyavash Pt. 3
  Week 18: Forud, the Son of Seyavash
  Week 19: The Akvan Div
  Week 20: Bizhan and Manizheh
  Week 21: The Occultation of Kay Khosrow
  Week 21B: Interlude
  Week 22: Rostam & Esfandyar (1/2)
  Week 23: Rostam & Esfandyar (2/2)
  Week 24: The Story of Darab and the Fuller
  Week 25: Sekander’s Conquest of Persia
  Week 26: The Reign of Sekander Pt. 1
  Week 27: The Reign of Sekander Pt. 2
  Week 28: The Death of Rostam
  Week 29: The Ashkanians
  Week 30: The Reigns of Ardeshir & Shapur
  Week 31: The Reign of Shapur Zu’l Aktaf
  Week 32: The Reign of Yazdegerd the Unjust
  Week 33: The Reign of Bahram Gur
  Week 34: The Story of Mazdak
  Week 35: The Reign of Kesra Nushin-Ravan
  Week 36: The Reign of Hormozd
  Week 37: The Reign of Khosrow Parviz
  Week 38: Khosrow and Shirin