The pew pew pew of blasters, the fanfare of the Emperor’s March, those iconic twin suns, the way someone is always drinking Corellian wine: These are the building blocks of the Star Wars world we know and love. Whatever galaxy you’re writing in, you must craft an environment that uniquely challenges your hero while immersing your reader in the story with carefully chosen details that ground us in time and place. In this class, author Delilah S. Dawson will talk about how to use dialogue, action, and all six senses to bring your world to life as only your protagonist sees it. No infodumping. No purple prose. Just the sort of concise but beautiful language that will hook agents and readers alike as surely as the Death Star’s tractor beam.