Started 55 days ago (2025-04-27T04:00:00Z). Goes forever.
Here's a little set of prompts that I barfed up at the moment (don't get stuck on any particular question and feel free to post about anything you feel like is related if you don't like these):
This one may need a reflection of at least one event in your week. Any notable story-related ideas you thought of you want to get off your chest? If you don't have a story yet, what themes can pair with the ideas you had?
Thoughts to what your map looks like this week? If you're having trouble, how would changes to the current version help to develop your story? Also, does the new version affect the culture, borders, rulers, and history of your world?
How about the cultures, how are they affected by these changes? Any new needs for transportation from one place to another, impacts to their occupation, disruptions to the class systems? How does it play into the history of the culture? What kinds of beliefs do these groups have?
The borders, what's new with them? In what way does the power dynamic between the nations in your world shift territories and what gives one the edge while the other is on the run? Why are the current borders in the story the way they are?
Rulers are the most likely the ones making the decisions and create dynamics in the world. How did they rise to power and where do they stand politically? What are their goals and how are they going to implement them into the world? How do they interact with other rulers? What changes do you plan for them?
Any new proposals to editing events in the history or creating entirely new ones? Any particular reason why these events are being added? In what way do they affect interactions between groups of people? Could be other things than wars, like technology inventions, cultural evolution, or the environment.
Anyway, I could change some of these prompts to be more beginner-friendly or reusable over time. This is the best I could do for now. Happy writing!
Have a question for this streak?Ask a question...Ever since Trump's second inauguration on January 20th, he's been making a lot of moves that rapidly affected the geopolitical atmosphere both internationally and domestically. As a result, I've been giving more thought to how the current administration thinks, and by extension, how the far right thinks. For example, just yesterday, Trump signed an executive order to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS, public broadcasting networks many consider being quite neutral. I couldn't help but recall fascism's core tenant of preventing critical thinking by censoring information deemed undesirable. It's given me some ideas how to talk about it in my story.
For maps, I've been debating whether to keep things within the solar system or branch out into the Alpha Centauri star system, more specifically the Proxima Centauri planetary system. Map making has not been developed as there is a lot to work on in the solar system first prior to developing other systems. For celestial bodies to focus on, I'd say Earth, Luna, Mars, Ceres, Titan, Io, Europa, Enceladus, and many more warrant their own deep diving. I can say the cultures between Earth and Mars would be remarkably different compared to Earth and Luna. Borders would likely be reserved for celestial bodies alone and their low-atmosphere orbit as enforcement there would be much easier than farther out due to the exponentially larger space to travel. Rulers and history I haven't focused much at all, and will have to be worked on later.
Cultures would have much more to work with, as their environments would vary largely and so will their cuisines, social norms, languages, occupations, beliefs, etc. I'd say the most common type of transportation would still be restricted to their respective planets, as interplanetary/interstellar travel would be expensive both money-wise and time-wise. There would be little opportunity to change lifestyles once someone is born into their social class. It would likely be historically revealing how easily it would be to exploit lower-class individuals born into a family of miners and subject them to poor working conditions without anyone batting an eye. This would probably boost their sense of community and nationality, only trusting their own while doing whatever necessary to benefit their own situation.
The borders are rather blurry out in space due to enforcement issues, but its a risk that is made worse by laws set in place by local nations to subject any non-identifiable vessel with no departure/arrival notices to be immobilized and boarded by police, often resulting in the ship made derelict and crew arrested. Don't have ideas on rival nations and history of the borders at this moment.
5/6. As I said earlier, rulers and history hasn't been worked out yet.
