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A Question a Day, August 2025: Worldbuilding

30 questions in regards to worldbuilding to answer every day in August, 2025!

01. What are some really cool and interesting characters you've created for the sake of your projects? How often do they show up in their respective works? What inspired their creation?

02. What is your favorite piece of history you've come up with for your world?

03. What careers tend to be coveted in your world, vs which ones tend to be looked down upon? What are some traits that are coveted in your societies?

04. What are some defining traits that separate your societies? What are some things that they all share in common?

05. What are some of the historical events that your character has caused or that would have gone very different had they not been there for them?

06. Tell me about some of the fairytales that are told in your world. What inspired them in-world?

07. What are sports like in your world? How are they different from those in your real-world sports in your society? What inspired their creation?

08. What do the people in your world do for entertainment?

09. What are some societal favorite food treats? Describe them in detail.

10. Tell us about some mystical objects in your world that are whispered/talked about among the people but that are wildly misrepresented in the stories.

11. Tell us about some of the animals that you've created for your world. What inspired them? Are they based off of any real life animals?

12. What are some of the most wildly misrepresented stories in your world's history?

13. What are some of the most staple foods for each of your major societies?

14. Does your world have world powers? How did they come to this power?

15. Tell us about some famous art in your world. Who made them? What materials did they use? What inspired the art to be created?

16. Tell us a worldbuilding tidbit you love to gush over or feel you haven't had enough opportunity to gush over.

17. Free space - tell us something about your worldbuilding you feel inclined to speak about.

18. Do your societies use currency or do they use a bartering system or do they have another means to exchange goods & services?

19. What are some of the notable "wonders of the world" in your world?

20. How long has your world existed? How close are the world's historians to guessing/figuring out how old the world is?

21. What are some jobs that exist in the real world that don't exist in your world?

22. Who are some coveted artists in your world? What kind of art did/do they make?

23. Are there any interesting weather phenomenon that happen in your world that don't happen in the real world?

24. Make a post of some clothing designs you've created for your world. What are the materials used in clothing like?

25. Name some of the languages in your world. Are they inspired by any real-world languages? What are some phrases or words you've created in the world and their definitions?

26. How do your societies treat animals?

27. Are you the type to create maps? Show it/them off!

28. Tell us all about your governments. What makes them work? What needs to change? What are they hiding from their citizens? How often do new leaders arise, if they have leaders at all?

29. Tell us about some of your favorite religions you've created. Are they inspired by any real-world religions or religious figures?

30. Does magic exist in your world? If so, how is it handled? How is it viewed? Are magic-users coveted, feared or just seen as 'other people' and kind of looked past? If magic doesn't exist, how higher-minded people viewed? Same questions as the magic-users in the first part.

31. What is the most famous place in your world? What makes it so famous and how crowded is it at any given time?

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A Question A Day, July 2025: Characters

31 questions to help you post about your characters every day in the month of July 2025.

01. If your character was to live in your favorite tv show or movie's world, how would their life be different? How would they be different? How would they get along with the main cast of the show or movie?

02. Does your character have special tricks they like to do to show off? If yes, what are they?

03. What is your character's favorite subject for photography? Do they prefer photography of animals, weather patterns, the sky, nature, people, events, sports, etc?

04. How many languages does your character know? What made them decide to learn them (if more than one)? Did they learn them for fun or out of necessity? How fluent are they? Are they better with written or verbal speech?

05. What is the most insane thing your character has done for attention?

06. Does your character prefer their SOs older or younger or the same age? If they don't date, then same question but for close friends.

07. If your character was to rename themself, what name would they pick? What's the significance of the name?

08. What are some of your character's guilty pleasures? How many people know about them?

09. How many relationships has your character been in? Which one was their favorite? If that one ended, what happened to end it?

10. Is there a certain restaurant or type of food that your character tends to crave a lot? What is it? Is it based off of a real restaurant or is it made up?

11. Is your character the type to believe in astrology? How far does their belief go, if they do? Do they read horoscopes? Do they actually believe their horoscopes to be real?

12. What form of science most fascinates your character? How much of a curious person would you say they are?

13. Which of your character's (own) physical features do they find the most attractive/are they the most proud of? Which side of their family did they get it from? How far down their lineage do you have to go to find someone who shares it (for instance, my eyes come from my maternal grandmother)?

14. Reblog a post that you feel really encapsulates the essence of your character. Explain in a separate post (unless you reblog your own post, then you can just do it on the reblog) why you chose that post for them.

15. If your character was to run a blog on tumblr, what kind of blog would they run? Would they post a lot or be someone that posts every once in a great while? Would they only have one blog or multiple? Would they have multiple accounts so they could have multiple main blogs?

16. What fandoms would your character be part of if they lived in the real world in modern times?

17. How difficult is it to earn your character's trust? Who do they trust the most and what caused them to trust this person so much?

18. How often does your character have time to do their favorite hobbies? How much time at a time do they put toward it (ie an hour in one sitting to do their favorite hobby)? What is the hobby?

19. Would your character be an android or an iPhone person or would they be the person that uses some obscure phone that no one's ever heard of?

20. What is your character's view on technology?

21. What is your character's favorite breed of dog? What draws them to this breed? Do they tend to prefer big, medium or small dogs, in general?

22. What are some of the differences in how others around your character view them vs how the character views themself? Which view is more accurate of how they actually are? Do their actions match their speech? Are they consistent or do they tend to be more random in action? How about in speech?

23. How frequently does your character go to the place they were born? Do they travel much? If so, where all have they been? What's their favorite place they've been to?

24. What is your character's favorite first-date question to ask? How do people respond to their answer to the question?

25. What was the most tragic thing to happen to your character? Where in the process of healing from it are they? What steps have they taken to try to heal from it? How do they react to people talking and/or asking about it?

26. How health-conscious is your character? What are some of their good health habits and what are some of the bad ones?

27. What are some of your habits that you know your character would have Something to say about? What would be your character's advice to you if they were to give advice on how to kick the habit(s)?

28. What is your character's favorite activity to do with their partner?

29. What pet names does you character love? Which ones do they hate? What nicknames have they given to their partner that isn't quite a normal pet name?

30. When handwriting, does your character have a preference on what color ink pen they use? Do they prefer pens or pencils? If pencils, do they prefer mechanical or number 2 pencils?

31. Which classic tv channel would be your character's favorite if they lived in real life?

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You know how there's mermay and the other "daily prompt" type events?

I'm going to be posting one post for every month of the year that you can use for that month to answer daily questions about your writing and characters.

I will be starting with July 2025 so that you can prep for your posts, but the hope is that this blog will help with writers who struggle to know what to post on their blog be able to post regularly.

:] let's have fun and post about our beloved hobby!

I'll post links to each monthly list to this post as I create them so you can find them easily as the months arrive. ❤️

July 2025: Characters

August 2025: Worldbuilding