Matt Wright

The Anatomy of Archetypal Settings: Crafting Symbolic and Dynamic Worlds (Anatomy of Settings, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Transform your settings from mere backdrops into powerful storytelling forces.

Some stories happen somewhere. The best stories emerge from places that feel alive, rich with history, symbolism, and emotion.

In The Anatomy of Archetypal Settings, novelist and world-building expert Matt Wright presents the definitive guide to crafting immersive, multi-layered settings that shape character arcs, deepen conflict, and reinforce theme. This comprehensive resource explores over 50 archetypal settingsfrom forests, mountains, and deserts to prisons, marketplaces, and labyrinthsrevealing the deep psychological, cultural, and mythological forces that define them.

Through detailed analysis, practical storytelling techniques, and genre-spanning applications, this book will help you:

• Harness archetypal landscapes to evoke powerful emotional and symbolic resonance.
• Develop setting arcs that transform alongside characters and plot.
• Use setting as an active forcecreating conflict, shaping societies, and driving change.
• Integrate settings into key story beats, from inciting incident to resolution.
• Avoid common pitfalls that make settings feel flat or disconnected.
• Adapt these techniques across genres, whether you're writing fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, thrillers, or romance.

Going beyond traditional world-building, The Anatomy of Archetypal Settings introduces the concept of Setting Arcs, showing how environments evolve, mirror character growth, and reflect thematic depth. Whether you're designing a mystical island, a war-torn city, or an endless prairie, this book gives you the tools to make your settings as compelling and dynamic as your characters and plot.

If you're ready to make setting one of your strongest storytelling tools, this book is your ultimate guide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Matt Wright Author
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781955948395
• Artikelnr.: 75900660

Autorenporträt

Matt Wright is the author of the Sun Maker Saga, a self-published space opera fantasy series, as well as a freelance writer and editor. He co-edited The Southern Quill (2017), a literary journal at Dixie State University, as well as the sci-fi/fantasy anthology, Unmasked: Tales of Risk and Revelation (2021). He also edited and reissued a new edition of From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon by Jules Verne (2021). He's also the author of a few short stories set in the Sun Maker universe: Warriors (2021), The Last Star (2021), and The Astraneaum (2022).

Matt has been writing fantasy and science fiction for over fifteen years and has written full-length novels since he was in high school. He loves writing in the epic genres with echoes of mythological and historical contexts. He currently resides in Albuquerque, NM, with his wife, Elizabeth, and his best bud in the whole world, Joey.