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Are worldbuilding questions on topic?

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On SE, Writing and Worldbuilding are separate, and it works pretty well. I, however, use the Worldbuilding SE significantly more than the Writing SE, and as I reduce my usage of SE I would like a place to ask such questions.

In This Question on-topic includes "Questions about fiction..." which in my opinion covers Worldbuilding in a very broad sense. But it also easily could not cover it.

Before I go and ask worldbuilding questions of the fine people here, I do want to make sure it is something that's welcome here. I see that there is a world-building tag, but that only means someone made it as a tag.

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I'd love if world-building included was fair game for possible questions, on this site, both to draw from the obvious expertise from contributors, to run with the idea of being 'not SE,', and also to recognize that all forms of fiction (possibly NF too) involve some elements of world-building.

I'll be happily surprised if the consensus on your question is yes--but I'd like it if one of the distinguishing features of this site is that world building is a valid topic.

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Galastel‭ wrote over 4 years ago

Hmm, if we allow worldbuilding questions, then, as per Mark Baker's answer, we might as well allow any research questions that a writer might need to answer, e.g. forensics. We can turn ourselves into a general platform for writers, to research all sort of stuff - I sort of like the idea. Are we equipped to do so? Donno. Maybe give it a try? If what we want to be is a community of writers, it makes sense to try at least.

Andon‭ wrote over 4 years ago

I, personally have no issue with being a general-purpose writing platform. There's a lot of things that go into writing, and having one place to ask things would be pretty nice.