Microcosm Challenge: Empty World

Share a world for us to fill with people and stories

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This is one of Microcosm's Greater Challenges

What is it?

A challenge not to write another story but to write another world. A world waiting for a heroine, waiting for a journey to take place within it.

Why should you do it?

Because it’s easy to fall into the familiar trap, to write stories always set in the same world or the same setting, this challenge forces you to write something interesting for others.

Writing worlds for others help you think about it as a more complete and standalone product. Writing enough into it that they can write without you.

This is almost guaranteed to make you a better world-builder, especially with the data from comments, claps and response stories.

And that can only help your own stories.

How do you do it?

• Write a 300, 200 or 100-word non-story that describes a world or society with enough detail to inspire other writers to fill it with their own stories.
• It’s almost the opposite of a story, containing no protagonists, no active story arcs—just exposition, backstory, or inviting world…