Writing Your Fantasy Novel

Writing Fantasy: The Foundational Work You Need for Writing and Finishing Your Fantasy Novel

4.70 (295 reviews)
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Writing Your Fantasy Novel
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3.5 hours
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Jul 2021
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$94.99
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What you will learn

Form habits to get your writing done

Structure a novel-length fantasy story

Develop compelling characters with depth

Build a world for your fantasy novel

Why take this course?

As a fantasy writer, you want to build a fascinating world for your story, create unforgettable characters, and weave together a captivating plot.

Overall you want to tell a story that enchants your readers, a story your readers will want to come back to again and again.

My aim is to help you create that story.  By the end of this course, you will have done all the foundational work you need for writing and finishing your fantasy novel.  

I’m Jason Link, the author of the Legender series, an epic adventure that Publishers Weekly calls a grand fairytale.

For the last 20 years I’ve been practicing the art of storytelling and fantasy writing, and in this course, I share with you the insights I’ve gained on that journey.

I’ve designed this course to follow a logical flow. We will cover:

  • Situating you into the writer's life so you can get your writing done

  • Building a world for your story

  • Developing memorable characters

  • Structuring your story and writing your story's outline

  • Forming a healthy relationship between your storytelling and world building

By the end of this course, you will have done all the foundational work you need for writing and finishing your fantasy novel.


Praise for Jason's course "Writing Great Fantasy: World Building Workshop":

  • "I really enjoy the course. I order many story writing courses and this is the best! Really comprehensive!" 


  • "I highly recommend the course to all those who wish to learn the craft of world building for writing great fantasy....The course helped me immensely to achieve that in addition to benefiting me as a learner. The course offers amazing content and is structured excellently."


  • "Even early on in the course, it's clear that my expectations will be met and then surpassed. Extremely helpful and engaging!"


  • "Love it! This course is helping me test the levels of my creativity, challenging me to try new things and to really think about my world's lore and history."

  • "The way Jason guides you to build your world makes it seem so simple as the entire process is broken down into small and manageable tasks. I have taken a lot of notes and will keep re-visiting this course, again and again, to ensure I am not missing out on any point. Thanks a lot Jason for a wonderfully well-crafted course."


Praise for Jason Link's work:

  • "This book is an incredible epic fantasy. Well written, interesting, and with believable characters, it sucks you in from the first page." 


  • "Fantasy as its best."


  • "Perhaps the best part of reading was that feeling you get when you are immersed into a different world, which is exactly what Link has built. There are cultures, geographies, languages, and creatures that come together to make a fun yet deeply sophisticated world. In this way, The Legender reminded me of the greats like Tolkien."


  • "A new world on par with Tolkien."


  • "Jason Link has a gift for not only creating a captivating new world, filled with creatures and cultural practices a reader has never thought of, but also maintaining a consistent and believable voice throughout the twists and turns of the story."


Do you wish readers to have a similar reaction to your story?

If so, join me in this course so I can show you how to write a novel that will enchant your readers--a story your readers will want to get lost in again and again. 

Check out the free previews to get a sample of what you'll learn and then enroll to get started on your fantasy novel today!

Reviews

Alexandru
March 22, 2024
Overall, the course covers the basics of how to approach the writing of a fantasy novel, and it does so in a well-structured manner, logically introducing ideas and examples. For a novice in the craft, it will certainly prove helpful and insightful. However, I have both an objective and a subjective reason for only giving it 4 stars. Objectively, because the information is sometimes rather shallow and does not cover the multitude of possibilities. For example, in Section 4: Classic Fantasy Character Archetypes, the focus is on the clichéd hero archetype. While this is indeed a highly recurring motif in fantasy, it is also the one most aspiring writers resort to (perhaps hoping to produce the next Lord of the Rings - which, by the way, is one of the books that Jason uses a lot as an example in the course, along with the film series Star Wars). But there are other archetypes which allow writers to approach different kinds of stories and explore innovative creative ideas (I recommend you check out author KM Weiland for an expanded perspective on archetypes). Now the subjective reason for taking away a star: around 45 minutes of this 3.5-hour course are an exact repetition of lessons from Jason's "Worldbuilding Workshop". And while I get it that those lessons make sense in this course as well, I feel that having the very same videos is a bit of a let-down. I rather think that the two courses could have easily been worked into a single one (something with a title like "Fantasy Worldbuilding and Story Creation", let's say), which would have removed the necessity to duplicate material, and would have made use of the best in both of Jason's courses on creating fantasy. So all in all, while I believe this course does touch some important bases of writing, story plotting and worldbuilding, it is probably best suited for beginners who might have an idea for a story and need to find out how to get started on their author's journey. From here, one would have to look for additional resources (and there are lots) to strengthen their understanding and to enrich their approach to writing.
Misch
December 2, 2023
I love the pace, smoothness, and organization of this course. I highly recommend this course for those at any level of writing.
Makena
August 16, 2023
This course is awesome! It a great starter course for those who may get overwhelmed by the very in depth courses. It covers so many basis and I learned so much valuable information.
Jacob
August 16, 2023
Good solid material to begin a story idea and format with a solid foundation. The better the foundation for the story the more options the story can offer.
Tanya
June 10, 2023
This course goes over points that I already know but also goes into more depth and expanded what I already knew, into what I didn't know and understand. I'm loving this course.
Brett
May 1, 2023
This was a very fascinating and detailed course that not only gave fantastic information but was all presented clearly. Jason has an outstanding teaching ability, and I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of writing a fantasy novel.
Ben
April 3, 2023
I really really enjoyed this beginning because it really helps you to understand what fantasy is and how we write it well.
Lucas
January 5, 2023
It has helped me understand how to create a world, how to creat a plot, characters and Jason shows real examples of fantasy books which I found really helpful to understand the points he was trying to make. Throughout the course, the explanation is paced and easy to grasp. Will look into more courses from him.
Glenna
June 25, 2022
I found this course very interesting. It showed me that I was not doing as much as I should have been. I'm sure I will revisit this course many times.
Fabio
January 2, 2022
This is a really useful and well done course. It gives many important basic (and not only) knowledges that I'm sure I'll need in my writing.
Lisa
December 29, 2021
All things I need to hear and form an action plan around. Instructor gets a bit too repetitive at times - I understand the value of repetition, I appreciate hearing something more than once, linking something back to larger concepts - but instructor goes just a bit beyond the sweet spot.
Andy
December 5, 2021
This was a great course. I have been struggling to finish writing my story for such a long time and this course really helped frame things for me. In the past, I have tried fitting things here and there, but with no real direction. This course, and Jason's insight, have really helped me and given so many "Ah!" moments.
Adam
October 28, 2021
Like his other courses, he is very detailed and personal. I know I learned a lot from this course too!
Michael
July 18, 2021
As I progress through this course it improves I am finding the character development section particularly helpful
John
June 6, 2021
I'm grateful for this opportunity to learn from you and all you are teaching. I started out like really confused and now it's all coming together thanks to this course.

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