Create a world where a religion rules what people do and say.
How does this religion rule the world?
Why does this religion rule the world?
What happens to those that deviate?
What time period is this world in? past, present, future?
Given a set of rules, create a world and write about it.
Create a world where a religion rules what people do and say.
How does this religion rule the world?
Why does this religion rule the world?
What happens to those that deviate?
What time period is this world in? past, present, future?
Create a world where time travel is possible.
What are the rules of time travel? (example: time is fixed there is no changing fate, time is frivolous and any change can change many other things, or the past is fixed the future is a possible…)
How do the rules of time travel affect the story?
Why is time travel possible?
How is time travel possible?
Create a world that is based around one rule.
What is the rule? (examples; everyone in the world is over 1000 years old, everyone in the world looks the same, no one talks to each other…)
How does this one rule affect the world as a whole?
What kinds of conflicts can this world have?
Create a world that humans have colonized and is very different.
How is the world different from earth?
How is this world more hostile than earth?
Create a world in which people have a magic ability to control one thing in the world.
What kinds of things are the able to control?
How are these abilities abused, and controlled?
Are some more powerful than others?
Who ends up ruling this world?
Create a world where everyone in it must have a symbiotic relationship with some other creature.
Is it one creature to many people?
Is it a relationship made not fore the persons benefit?
What hidden truth could turn this world on it’s head?
Create a world that everyone in it is completely influenced by commercials.
What does the commercials say?
How do they influence the people?
What is in control of the commercials?
Create a world based in magic, and after you have created this world apply the rule “there is no magic.”
How can you keep this world the same but not have magic?
What can you substitute magic with?
How can you keep the feel it had before by exchanging magic with something else?
Inspiration:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke
Create a world where every race in the world has a task to do that is centered around saving the human race.
Example: Merpeople protect humans from drowning.
Why do they do what they do?
Why is humans so much more important?
Is it destiny or is it manipulation that has caused this to happen?
Create a world that has a expansive history.
What is important about this history?
Did the history just happen or did it form the world from the eather?