Based upon your responses to the assigned texts, and your brainstorming around the elements you might want to consider when building a world (for a character derived from an earlier writing exercise or otherwise), here are some of the things you collectively came up with (an impressive list!). Thanks to Isabel for filling the gaps in my notes 🙂

cultures

political structures

setting (and, we agreed, this is a wide category in itself)

boundaries (which relates to setting and character backstories)

character backstory as tool for exploring limitations and responses to world >>> Boundaries of the world

rules (internal logic)

genre (which affects the way you present the world and also the rules of it)

social constructs

political structures

incentive

pressure/outside forces

scope of characters

problems e.g. post apocalyptic