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Week 1
Becoming the Architect
The Foundation
Define why your world exists, separate setting from world, identify the foundation your story actually needs, and begin with intention instead of endless lore.
A six-week guided worldbuilding workshop
The Lorekeeper's
Workshop™
Develop Your Worldbuilding Skills
Build a world that serves your story—one foundation, culture, institution, and hidden force at a time.
Worldbuilding with purpose
You don't need the largest world. You need the right one.
It's easy to spend months inventing history, maps, languages, and lore—only to discover that very little of it affects the story on the page. The Lorekeeper's Workshop™ is designed to help creative writers move from scattered ideas and endless planning toward a cohesive world built around the story they want to tell.
Every world exists because a story needs it.
Your six-week journey
Build your kingdom from the foundation up.
Each week adds another layer to your world while connecting it directly to character, conflict, and plot.
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Week 2
Raising the Pillars
Geography & Place
Build geography that shapes civilization. Explore climate, resources, settlements, borders, distance, and maps as causes—not decorations.
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Week 3
The Living Kingdom
Culture & Identity
Create cultures that feel lived in through daily life, language, shared values, diversity, traditions, identity, and the conflicts those differences create.
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Week 4
The Seats of Power
Institutions & Influence
Design governments, economies, belief systems, social classes, laws, and institutions that influence ordinary life and create believable story pressure.
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Week 5
The Hidden Forces
The Extraordinary
Give magic, technology, divine forces, or other extraordinary systems a source, rules, costs, limits, social consequences, and a meaningful place in your story.
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Week 6
Opening the Gates
Bringing Your World to Life
Reveal worldbuilding naturally, avoid information dumps, build a useful World Bible, check continuity, revise through worldbuilding, and bring the pieces together.
What you keep
Six guided weeks. Resources you can return to for as long as you need.
The workshop gives you a structured path without turning creativity into homework for homework's sake. You'll receive each week's materials on Monday, and the resources remain yours so you can revisit or complete them at your own pace.
Founding Cohort members have a separate eight-week completion and feedback agreement.
- Six weeks of guided worldbuilding instruction
- Weekly presentation materials and focused exercises
- Lorekeeper’s Workbook assignments tied to each lesson
- A reusable World Bible and Lorekeeper Portfolio framework
- Monday lesson and course-update emails
- Permanent access to your provided course materials
The Founding Cohort
Help shape the workshop—and receive an extra bonus for doing it.
The first 20 people who enroll may choose to join the Founding Cohort. Founders receive the full six-week workshop plus access to the Species Foundry beta GPT as an added material bonus.
The Founding Agreement
By accepting a Founding Cohort place, you agree to complete the course within eight weeks and provide the requested end-of-course feedback.
Prefer not to participate in feedback? No problem. Regular members receive the full core workshop and materials without the eight-week completion requirement.
An intentional founding price
A complete six-week workshop for $40.
The founding price is intentionally set around the cost of a physical workbook. Your $40 enrollment opens the full six-week guided experience and its accompanying course materials.
October 2026 Cohort
$40
One-time enrollment
Begins: Monday, October 5
Lessons arrive: Mondays by email
Founders: first 20 paid Founding Cohort registrations
Founding Cohort — $40
Includes the Species Foundry beta GPT bonus. Requires completion within eight weeks and requested feedback.
Regular Enrollment — $40Includes the complete core workshop and materials, with no eight-week completion or feedback requirement.
Secure checkout through Stripe. Please use the email where you want to receive course materials.
Is this workshop for you?
For writers who want their worlds to do more than look impressive.
You'll feel at home here if…
- You're developing a fantasy, speculative, or world-rich story.
- You have lots of ideas but aren't sure what your story actually needs.
- You want geography, culture, power, and magic to affect the plot.
- You prefer practical prompts and guided reflection over rigid formulas.
This may not be the right fit if…
- You want someone else to build the world for you.
- You're looking primarily for grammar, line editing, or proofreading.
- You want a single “correct” formula for writing a fantasy world.
- You're more interested in accumulating lore than connecting it to story.
Meet your instructor
Amanda Lee
Amanda is an author, editor with academic training in literary studies, and creator of The Lorekeeper's Workbook™. She developed the Lorekeeper framework to help writers build believable worlds around their strengths, their stories, and the questions that actually matter on the page.
Visit Writing with Amanda Lee →Questions before you enter?
Workshop FAQ
Do I have to finish everything in six weeks?
No. Regular participants keep the provided materials and may complete them at their own pace. Only Founding Cohort members agree to finish within eight weeks so they can provide timely feedback.
What makes the Founding Cohort different?
The first 20 enrollees may accept a Founding Cohort place. Founders agree to complete the course within eight weeks and provide requested feedback, and they receive the Species Foundry beta GPT as an added bonus.
When will I receive the course materials?
Files, lesson materials, and course updates are sent by email each Monday during the six-week workshop.
Do I need to have a finished manuscript?
No. The workshop is designed to support active worldbuilding at different stages. You'll get the most from it if you already have a story idea or project you can apply the exercises to.
Is the physical Lorekeeper's Workbook included?
The $40 price reflects the workshop enrollment and provided course materials. It is intentionally priced around the cost of the physical workbook; a physical copy is not listed as part of the enrollment package.
Every great kingdom begins with a single stone.
Place yours.
Join The Lorekeeper's Workshop™ this October and build a world your readers can believe in.