Explore Your Sandbox: 47 Writing Prompts to Fully Build a Speculative World

This digital guided prompt book contains a variety of prompts aimed at helping writers and other worldbuilders fully flesh out an invented world. Prompts focus on aspects like the world's weather, wildlife, culture, history, technology, economy, and other aspects of a three-dimensional setting.

Included prompts:

1. A visitor from another reality (An Earthling visits your story's world)
2. How-to (Explain your world's main deal)
3. They fought the law (Your world's laws and punishments)
4. Let’s talk this over (Write a dialectic)
5. Through all the seasons (See your world in all weather)
6. Gone with the wind (Take a top-down view)
7. Home sweet home (Your character on a lazy day)
8. Chore day (Your characters tackle tasks)
9. A quick jaunt (Your characters take a day trip)
10. When I grow up (A kid's perspective)
11. Rites of passage (How kids grow up)
12. You’re an animal (See through non-human eyes)
13. A day in the life (Get to know a space's rhythms)
14. An annotated calendar (Define the big days of your world's year)
15. So that’s why it’s called... (Explain how a landmark got its name)
16. What did you just call me? (A verbal misunderstanding)
17. Make ‘em laugh (Explore your world's sense of humor)
18. I know it when I see it (Define what your world sees as smut)
19. Origin story (Go back to the beginning)
20. Through the generations (Explore what's passed down)
21. In the before time (Find the last time big things changed)
22. Remnants of the past (Think back to ancient times)
23. Culture heroes (Discover famous figures)
24. Newfangled inventions (Explore the technological frontier)
25. You can fix this, right? (Your characters have equipment problems)
26. Back in my day... (Inter-generational conversation)
27. First day on the job (Tour a workplace)
28. The haves and have nots (Assess your world's economic disparity)
29. Those that serve (See through the eyes of a service worker)
30. Moving day (A character changes economic status)
31. Defining the margins (What privlege means in your world)
32. Behind the curtain (Define who makes the big decisions)
33. It’s a conspiracy (Explain your world's conspiracy theories)
34. Have you heard? (Share some gossip)
35. If you choose me... (Write a campaign speech)
36. What’s for dinner? (Write a recipe)
37. The big game (Your characters watch a competitive sport)
38. A night out (Explore your world's night life)
39. A night in (How the homebodies of your world pass the time)
40. The dearly departed (Funeral rites and ceremonies)
41. Say a little prayer (Define the religious and spiritual beliefs)
42. Telling stories (Write a story your characters would tell each other)
43. Party time! (Explore the world at its most festive)
44. Prized possession (Define what has value)
45. Sing me a song of your people (Hear your world's music)
46. Matters of taste (Your characters eat a great meal)
47. Chit-chat (Your characters make small talk)