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Should I write about a particular lingering thought? [closed]

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Closed by System‭ on Jan 2, 2018 at 00:47

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I have had the thought of writing about a nation with states on another planet. The planet is earth-like and the quantity of some resources is higher than on Earth.

There are some differences between this and the USA, namely, no war and the fact that the 2 nations are on different planets. Another major difference is that the cities are underground. But the humanoids do regularly go up to the surface for things like water, fishing, exploration, and knowing where they are in a given day(at least until technology of geostationary orbit is applied to all latitude and longitude ranges(so satellites at the poles would stay there while current technology of geostationary orbit travels the furthest but all obey that whatever distance is traveled, it is done so in 24 hours)).

So should I write about this lingering thought? I have been thinking about it for a year now.

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As a world-building exercise, not as a story.

It sounds to me like you are engaged in world-building; which means solving the problems of politics, behavior, technology levels, geography, communications, religion, etc that all go into building a coherent fictional world.

But this is just a setting and that is not enough to start a story.

The setting is preparatory work, in fiction. You need characters that have a problem to solve (which might be suggested in your preparatory work), something they desire that will cause them to venture forth and take risks to achieve it despite the perils and cost involved. Something they care about more than their own safety and comfort.

You can write a "bible" about your invented universe, the things that are true about the setting and how it all works. For a story, you need a hero with a goal, a thinking being with a goal that the reader will follow to see how the venture to reach that goal comes to some conclusion, and along the way learn about your setting.

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