What is "worldbuilding"?

Worldbuilding is the process of creating a fictional world and all the rules and characteristics within it; this includes, but is not limited to, a fictional place's culture(s), economy, environments, conflicts, history, and so much more!

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This year's November Worldbuilding is sponsored by World Anvil ⛏️

World Anvil is a set of worldbuilding tools that helps you create, organize and store your world setting, and write your stories & novels.
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Welcome to Storytelling Collective's November Worldbuilding Challenge

November 1 - November 30, 2026

Join us for a 100% free month-long writing challenge, complete with lessons, prompts, and guidance on developing your own original, fictional world

Any narrative you write requires worldbuilding, and we're here to help you start your journey into designing the immersive, detailed world of your dreams! The goal of this challenge is to have fun, be creative, and make a world unlike anything you've ever seen—because you are building it.

Join us for four weeks of worldbuilding, where we'll break down the basics and give you fun activities that will help you on your creative journey. 

Register now and join us in the Storytelling Collective Discord server, where we have a private channel set up just for participants.

Sign up for the November Worldbuilding Challenge

This is a 100% FREE challenge, but if you want to kick $10 our way as a thanks, every donated dollar is delegated to our scholarship fund.

An overview of what you'll learn:

    1. Welcome to the 2026 November Worldbuilding Challenge!

    2. Challenge Schedule & Toolkit

    3. Get to Know the Storytelling Collective

    4. About World Anvil

    1. Week 1: Discovering Your World

    2. 11/1 - Prompt #1

    3. 11/2 - Prompt #2

    4. 11/3 - Prompt #3

    5. 11/4 - Prompt #4

    6. 11/5 - Prompt #5

    7. 11/6 - Prompt #6

    8. 11/7 - Prompt #7

    1. Week 2: The Past and Present

    2. 11/8 - Prompt #8

    3. 11/9 - Prompt #9

    4. 11/10 - Prompt #10

    5. 11/11 - Prompt #11

    6. 11/12 - Prompt #12

    7. 11/13 - Prompt #13

    8. 11/14 - Prompt #14

    1. Week 3: People and Power

    2. 11/15 - Prompt #15

    3. 11/16 - Prompt #16

    4. 11/17 - Prompt #17

    5. 11/18 - Prompt #18

    6. 11/19 - Prompt #19

    7. 11/20 - Prompt #20

    8. 11/21 - Prompt #21

    1. Week 4: A World of Stories

    2. 11/22 - Prompt #22

    3. 11/23 - Prompt #23

    4. 11/24 - Prompt #24

    5. 11/25 - Prompt #25

    6. 11/26 - Prompt #26

    7. 11/27 - Prompt #27

    8. 11/28 - Prompt #28

    1. Activity #7: A Farewell and Goodbye!

    2. Join us for 31 Days of December Drafting!

About this course

  • Free
  • 38 lessons
  • Activities with each lesson

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