How Not to Write a Book - 45 Things I Want to See Less of in Stories (Worldbuilding Edition)
https://elumish.tumblr.com/post/93501613401/45-things-i-want-to-see-less-of-in-stories
- Dramatic religious shifts in <50 years
- Arbitrary returns to Roman/Greek systems
- Worlds with one continent
- Arbitrary homophobia
- Heterogeneous technologically-limited rural areas
- Worlds with one religion/method of worship
- Skin color as the only means of differentiation
- Earth-based morality
- Arbitrary caste systems
- Cities founded in areas with no water
- Agriculture in areas with no water
- Everyone having the same weather all the time
- Technology not being consistent
- Swift changes in political ideology
- Every state having the same political structure
- Lack of trade
- Everyone having Western Abrahamic views on gender/sexuality
- American and European animals living in the same place
- Lack of biodiversity
- Death rites being the same everywhere
- Burying people in marshy swampland prone to flooding
- Access to the same food everywhere
- Agriculture that doesn’t match the climate
- Foods that exist because of genetic modification existing in nature (i.e. bananas)
- Everything being based in middle ages -> Victorian-era Western culture/technology level
- Magic having no effect on technological development
- Religions irrelevant to the land they are based in
- Indigenous skin-color unrelated to climate
- Climate unrelated to geographic location
- Homogenous port/trade cities
- Access to technology by lower class
- States with no human rights laws
- Immediate rebuilding after wars
- Long periods of time with absolute peace
- Lack of international organizations
- Western-based organizational structures
- Western-based human rights ideas
- Capitalism
- Clean streets with no sewage system
- Clean water with no sewage system
- Science that makes no sense
- Governments hated by everybody
- Governments with one political party/ideology
- Lack of communication between states
- Lack of immigration