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Television Sky Presents

Another Debut Writing Workshop:

Seats are limited to 10 SIGN UP BELOW

CLASS STARTS THE SECOND WEEK OF JANUARY - PAYMENT DUE IN FULL BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS - And Honestly, the sooner, the better

($50 OFF for anyone who registers in the first 24 hours)

$400 • 6 Weeks • 10 Seats

Haly, the Moonlight Bard, is bringing her sell-out GenCon worldbuilding workshop (the one you’d otherwise have to physically be there for) exclusively to Television Sky.

This is the remastered, expanded version. And you don’t even have to leave your chair.

WHO IS HALY!?

WHO IS HALY?!

Haly, the Moonlight Bard, is a professional worldbuilding consultant, author, and game designer.

  • Five-time WorldAnvil community judge

  • 2024’s “Most Helpful Camper” and “Eternal Sage”

  • Fiction featured in Substack’s Top in Fiction (August 2025)

She’s been dreaming up new worlds since 1983 when she first learned Dungeons & Dragons.

She specializes in contemporary worldbuilding, but has deep experience in fantasy, sci-fi, and historical settings—the kind of worlds that grab you by the face, kiss you hard, mug you, and leave you in a damp alley of your own making.

WHY YOU’RE SIGNING UP:

You want to unlock the secrets and write stories people want to live in, not just read.

Worldbuilding is how you do that.

It’s also one of the most misunderstood parts of craft: often denigrated, treated as an optional add-on, or shoved into fantasy/sci-fi only. In reality, worldbuilding is a critical step in any kind of storytelling, and in a whole lot of communication that pretends it isn’t storytelling at all.

In this workshop, you’ll learn:

  • What worldbuilding actually is

  • What it is not (If you’re dumping walls of text, something’s gone wrong)

  • Why every genre from epic fantasy to litfic to “I swear this is just a work email” depends on it

This workshop is perfect for:

  • Authors in ANY genre

  • Non-fiction writers (yes, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, grindset assholes: looking at you)

  • Game designers, TTRPG folks, and anyone else who builds worlds for other brains to inhabit

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN & MAKE

Over six weeks, you will:

  • Gain a thorough understanding of worldbuilding and its importance to narrative, regardless of genre

  • Develop and practice new creative-thinking skills that apply to all forms of storytelling

  • Learn a five-point creative-thinking framework to build a “world” from the ground up

  • Develop a “world” overflowing with conflict, drama, and story potential

  • Draft an original short story set in your new “world”

By the end, you won’t just have ideas. You’ll have a functioning narrative ecosystem and a draft that proves it.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

This is not “six Zoom calls and vibes.” You get:

  • Weekly video lectures and text lessons

  • Downloadable PDF materials

  • Unlimited questions and discussion in the class space hosted on Wet.ink

  • Weekly “office hours” with Haly for fast, direct replies

  • A group project and collaboration opportunities

  • Feedback from classmates and your instructor

  • A private community space for discussion, questions, feedback, and resource-sharing

You keep everything: assignments, feedback, discussions, PDFs, the whole pile.

LOGISTICS

  • Duration: 6 weeks

  • Price: $400 (with $50 off for anyone who signs up in the first 24 hours)

  • Seats: 10 (when it’s full, it’s full)

A NOTE FROM EMIL

Haly isn’t JUST the Moonlight Bard, she’s ALSO the Bard of the Velvet and a founding member of Television Sky. Her comprehensive theory on worldbuilding takes into account things you’ve never considered. This is going to be a DEEP DIVE, and well worth the coin.

We brought you the Return of Craig Clevenger after over a decade.

We brought you Charlene Elsby’s first wildly fun and successful solo writing workshop.

Now, comes The Midnight Bard, to tell you how you’ve been wrong about worldbuilding all along. And she’ll be right about it.

I promise you’ll get your worth, and come out of it a little dizzy, confused about the world you’ve built for yourself in the real, but, with more tools as a writer.

Choose your own adventure

CRAIG CLEVENGER’S WORKSHOP THE WRITER’S WORKBENCH RETURNS IN JANUARY

AS WELL AS CHARLENE ELSBY’S PSYCHODEMONICS SECOND COHORT

Hit their names and sign up to be on the list for the next workshops, details coming soon

Workshops and Classes

  • Craig Clevenger's The Storyteller's Workbench

    Next Class Cohort Signup Announcement TBA

    After over a decade Craig Clevenger ascended from his desert hideout to the Television Sky to teach people how to be better writers, again.

    “There is only one promise I give students who take my workshops and it is, you will come out of this class a better writer than you were when you came in.”

    - Craig Clevenger

  • Charlene Elsby's Psychodemonics

    Next Class Cohort TBA

    Psychodemonics is the first solo writing workshop from Charlene Elsby, the philosopher Queen of indie horror lit.

    “Psychodemonics is a course about imparting soul (psyche) to your writing and how to embody the daimon that inspires the work. Students will learn how human perspective determines our capacity to write from a viewpoint, how to reduce experience to its essence, and how literary expression differs from (but requires) the mechanical process of writing. Along the way, we will form habits that encourage authenticity and introspection, improve rhythm, and help to avoid bad faith fiction.”

    - Charlene Elsby

  • Sandolore Sykes' Everything & Nothing

    DEBUT CLASS FOR TELEVISION SKY ENROLLMENT STARTS 10/21/2025

    They say you can’t teach voice. Sandolore Sykes says otherwise.

    “This course explores mimetic prose—writing in which form and perception mirror each other, where language doesn’t describe experience but creates it.”