Genre Fiction Workshop: Fantasy

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
Week 1: Why do we love fantasy?
1	Why do we love fantasy? Why is it one of the most popular and enduring genres across platforms?
Week 2: Foundations of Mythos
2	Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell
3	Campbell, Jung, and Gaimen
Week 3: Arthur and the Ur-Mythos
4	Concept of the Central Mythos and the Matter of Kingship
5	Within and Beyond the Mythos (Tolkien, Martin, etc.)
Week 4: Using Mythos
6	Alternative views of Mythos
7	Exercises
Week 5: Fantasyland!
8	Warping our world
9	Fantasyland world building, cliché’s and cultures
Week 6: Fantastyland! cont.
10	Fantasyland 201—Not your Medieval World! Urban, Dark, and Gaslight	First draft of first piece due
Week 7: Magic
11	Playing by the Rules
12	The World and Its Magic
Week 8: Magic cont.
13	Magic changes History
14	Multiplicity
Weeks 9–13: Workshops
15–23	Workshop	Ses 18: First draft of second piece due
Week 14: Mostly Workshop
24	Workshop	Final drafts of all work due (except for those who have workshop on this date)
25	Special Topics/Discussion
Week 15: Finis
26	More discussion of the professional world; other related areas: horror, romantic fantasy, etc.