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 @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
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The prompt this week is - Engineers
Tell me a story from your setting about engineers ! They are the people who keep everything running. More qualified than mechanics, more grounded than inventors. They design and build machines and software, infrastructure like bridges and transport systems, and maintain complex systems that need more than a mechanic.
They are the ones with a deep understanding of what is going on in their specialty, even if they are not always quite as good with that other complex machine, humans. Famous engineers include Brunel and Bazalgette, and of course Scotty from Star Trek (it's a peculiar thing that Scotland has given us so many great engineers !) Then there was the father of all engineers, Imhotep, who designed the first Egyptian pyramids. But less high profile engineers are everywhere, keeping society functioning with machines, buildings, software, and anything else which is too complex for us mere mortals to design and maintain.
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:
It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.
