Worldbuilding Worksheet
These are questions to get you thinking about the world you are creating and the beings that inhabit it.
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Is the planet Earth? If so, when?
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What kind of planet is it? What kind of star/star system?
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What kinds of people are they? What do they look like? Are they human?
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How do the people live? Do they have cities? Fast transit?
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How do they trade goods? What do they have? What do they need?
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Is their technology primitive or advanced?
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What are their main sources of food?
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What do they believe?
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What do they fear?
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WHAT IS THE MAIN CONFLICT IN THE CULTURE??? (Or for a given character or class of
characters?)
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21W.763J / CMS.309 / CMS.809 Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction
Spring 2014
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