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Build worlds so vivid your readers feel the cobblestones underfoot and the rain on their skin. A live workshop that teaches you to write settings that engage all five senses using AI-powered world-building techniques.

(Course cost is $100. All advertised USD prices will be billed in ZAR through our South African payment gateway.)

Live Workshop

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$131  ·  Next live: 22nd July 2026 ·  Billed in ZAR (R2,300) through our SA payment gateway.

Included With Your Seat

Six months of on-demand access — on the house

When you complete the live workshop, you get the full on-demand version free for six months. Same teaching, same workbook, watch on your own schedule whenever you start a new book. A $97 (R1,700) value, included with every seat.

✓Live session with Coral
✓Hot-seat edits + Q&A
✓Workbook + cheat sheets
✓6 months on-demand class access

(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.

What We’ll Cover

The live session breakdown

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 live session…

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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

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Bonus — six months on-demand access included free when you complete the live cohort, so you can revisit any time you start a new book.

Frequently Asked

Before you join the waitlist, the quick stuff…

How is the live workshop different from the on-demand version?▾
Same teaching, same workbook. The live version adds Q&A with Coral, hot-seat edits on real setting blocks people in the room are working on, a date that puts the work on your calendar — and you also get six months on-demand access included free when you complete the cohort. The on-demand-only product is the self-paced class without live Q&A; you can start it the moment you buy.
When is the next cohort?▾
No date is currently scheduled. Cohorts run when there’s a waitlist of around 12–20 authors ready to commit. Drop your name on the waitlist (link in the hero above) and you’ll be the first to know when the date is set.
What if I can’t make the live date?▾
Live attendees keep on-demand class access for six months after the cohort, so if you miss a session you can take that part of the class in your own time. If you know up front you can’t make the live date at all, the standalone on-demand product is the cheaper option ($97 vs $131) — same teaching, same workbook, instant.
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 workshop are drawn from across genres.
What time of day are the live sessions usually held?▾
Cohorts are scheduled to overlap reasonable hours across UK, EU, US East Coast and South Africa. Specific time confirmed in the waitlist email when the date is set, so you can decide before committing.

From the Live Workshop

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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