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Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community ! I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from

The precarious world is no more solid than the clouds. It's nice to feel a solid foundation beneath your feet, like a road that leads you, perhaps, to your future. It's strange, but we're used to dividing

Basic criteria. I don't know who exactly coined the term "basic criteria," but they've made our lives a lot easier if we understand them. Yes, knowing the basic criteria of an object we're interested

Where the artist disappears. Being an artist is probably not a profession, but a state of mind when you notice all the beauty around you. But there's a misconception that if you're an artist, you're always

Verdict: Useless! Sometimes, when we look at something we don't understand, we form a verdict deep within our brain: useless! Yes, it's precisely knowledge that can protect us from the quick judgment we

Dreams flying beyond the horizon. A good dream is one destined to come true, while other dreams... are just dreams? Do dreams lose their value over time? It's unclear. On the one hand, they can be strengthened

Sand time. It occurred to me that time is absolutely sand time now, lol. And it doesn't matter whether you measure time with an hourglass or have a top-brand mechanical watch on your wrist, time is still

The mud of engineering thoughts. Have you seen those blooming ponds where the water is green, completely devoid of transparency? It's not a pond anymore, but a complete mud, to put it jokingly. Sometimes

Where there are no feelings. Feelings are considered a human trait, reserved for most living things, and can be expressed and felt. But sometimes, certain familiar feelings can be discerned where feelings

Autumn's angry cry. Do you think autumn can't scream angrily? Do you think the sound of rain beating on the roof and the rustle of fallen leaves underfoot are all the sounds of autumn? I thought so too.

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Justified surprise. Surprise comes in many forms. Sometimes it's caused by something incredible, and sometimes it's caused by something very simple, bordering on ignorance, like surprise that hiding two

Never say "Never" to new horizons. Never say "Never" to new horizons—that thought occurred to me yesterday after watching another educational video from a blogger who breeds rabbits

Controversial feelings. There's a saying that says a person feels good when they feel good, and it's hard to argue with that. It's this intangible "good" that drives us forward when things aren't

Trust is like a vacation by the sea. Trust is like a vacation by the sea. You've worked all year and worked through winter toward the cherished goal of finding yourself on the shores of a warm sea during

A tricky term. We often use time-related terminology in our daily lives; some concepts are perfectly clear, others are harder to grasp, and some are so vague—so "elastic"—that it is virtually

In search of the fundamental wisdom of our ancestors. There is perennial debate over the idea that, at some time and place, our ancestors did the very things we do today—only better, with higher quality,

Being in an imaginative world is so soothing a parallel universe with the collisions of our speculations. An unseen world that allows us to see beyond the veil of reality that's how such unreal ruminations

It all comes down to water. There is a humorous saying that goes, "Sausage isn't meat, and a chicken isn't a bird"—but one could take that further; after all, not everything liquid can be called

The wind knows no regrets. People—especially those who make quick decisions—are sometimes compared to the wind; this is true in part, yet in other respects, it is not. Unlike people, the wind knows no