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Q&A How feasible is it to write a story without any worldbuilding?

Is it possible to make a story (with a plot and characters) that has no worldbuilding or explanations for events? Like whenever anything happened in the story there was no background or explanation...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Snowshard‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Question world-building
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:08:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/26816
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Snowshard‭ · 2019-12-08T06:08:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
Is it possible to make a story (with a plot and characters) that has no worldbuilding or explanations for events? Like whenever anything happened in the story there was no background or explanation behind it. It would be similar to things like "The Call of Cthulhu" or "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", except that not only would there be no explanation for many events, but there would also be a very obscure setting.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-02-20T03:52:20Z (almost 8 years ago)
Original score: 16