Since I forgot something as important as gender roles in the template I posted yesterday, I of course went back and added that to the world-building template today. What I added was this:
- Gender roles
- What is the cultural conception of gender?
- Are there more than two genders? If so, what are the others, and how does society view them?
- Is it purely biological, or is there another component?
- Are there transgender individuals? How are they viewed by society?
- Are certain duties or behaviors reserved for one gender rather than another?
- Are these privileges or punishing requirements?
- Do people envy the duties/behaviors of other genders?
- Does anyone impersonate those of another gender for reasons of these duties or behaviors rather than out of gender dysphoria?
- If so, how does society react to them when they find out? Is it a different reaction than to transgender individuals?
- Are there places that specifically exclude people based on their gender?
- What is the cultural conception of gender?
Again, I’m sure I left out a lot of important stuff, but this is at least a start.
I also started filling out the template for the country in which the first novel takes place. I didn’t actually get very far before I moved on to do something else, though. (In my defense, I went out to run some errands this morning before it could get too horribly hot, and did not get home in time to escape the worst of the heat, so I was feeling a bit beat when I was trying to work on it.)
Today’s time spent at Camp NotNaNo: ~29 minutes
Time spent in July to date: 6:01:28.39
