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Save Your Setting — On Demand

Setting isn’t decoration — it’s the pressure cooker your characters are in. Coral teaches you to make your setting work as hard as your characters, with the AI prompt patterns to back it up. Self-paced and yours forever.

(Course cost is $97. All advertised USD prices billed in ZAR through our South African payment gateway.)

On-Demand Course

Save Your Setting

$97  ·  6 months access ·  Watch anytime ·  Billed in ZAR (R1,700) through our SA payment gateway.

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Same teaching with Q&A, hot-seat edits on real setting blocks, and a date that puts the work on your calendar. Cohorts run when there’s a waitlist of around 12–20 authors. Drop your name on the waitlist.

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Live Q&A · group hot-seat edits · date confirmed when waitlist fills.

(All advertised USD prices are billed in ZAR through our South African payment gateway.)

Setting is the invisible character readers feel without ever seeing. Get it wrong and AI gives you scenery; get it right and your world becomes the pressure cooker that drives every chapter. This is the on-demand version of the live workshop — same teaching, same workbook, watch on your own schedule.

What We’ll Cover

What’s inside the course

Setting as Pressure, Not Decoration▾
Stop treating setting like interior design. Use it to shape character behaviour, build obstacles, control pacing, amplify emotion, reveal theme, and shift power between characters in every scene.
The Four Layers of Immersive Setting▾
Build setting in layers the way you build characters: the physical environment, the sensory field, the emotional filter (setting through the character’s perception), and the story function — how the location isolates, traps, tempts, or endangers.
Stop AI Killing Your Setting▾
AI defaults to atmosphere instead of tension, generic adjectives, and interchangeable locations. Learn the prompts that make Claude/ChatGPT build the world with you instead of dropping a description block that stalls your pacing.
Setting Bibles That Carry a Series▾
Build a setting bible the same way you build a character card so location stays consistent across chapters, books, and pen names. Hand it to your AI and continuity stops breaking.

What You’ll Walk Away With

By the end of the course…

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A working definition of setting that isn’t “where the scene happens”

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The four-layer framework for building immersive setting in any genre

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AI prompts that make setting work as obstacle, not wallpaper

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A reusable setting bible template you can drop into any series

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Live edits on real AI-generated setting blocks so you can spot the rubbish in your own drafts

Frequently Asked

Before you enroll, the quick stuff…

When can I start?▾
Right now. As soon as your payment clears, you get the streaming link in your email and you can start the course. No waiting for a date.
How long do I have access?▾
Six months from the date of purchase. Watch as many times as you like during that window. Pause to take notes. Come back when you start a new book.
What’s included with the course?▾
The full teaching session video, the setting workbook, prompt cheat sheets, and the Setting-as-Character checklist. All downloadable so you can keep the materials after your access window closes.
Do I need to write any specific genre?▾
No. The setting framework works for romance, mystery, thriller, fantasy, contemporary — anywhere place matters. Examples in the course are drawn from across genres.
Will I get live feedback from Coral?▾
No — this is the on-demand version of the course. If you want live feedback, group coaching, and Q&A, take the live workshop instead (advertised separately on the Author Training page).

From the Course

In Coral’s Own Words

“Today we're going to look at settings — the first Story-functional, AI-enhanced way to work with your story setting. Every class has a workbook you can take into your AI or through manually, whatever suits your learning style.”

— Coral Hart, live teaching

“A strong setting is not decoration. It's the anchor your characters orbit around — and it's what makes a series feel like one world instead of separate books.”

— Coral Hart, live teaching

Excerpted from a live teaching session inside Plotprose Academy.

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