Quartzine #1: Worldbuilder's Book Club Pocket Checklist

Worldbuilder's Book Club is a reading challenge for writers, tabletop gamers, and others interested in reading non-fiction with an eye to its potential for informing your fictional worlds, whether you're working your way through a stack of books you've already compiled for research or you're reading a varied selection of titles to generate ideas. It is intended for deepening both realistic and fantastic worlds by reading twelve books covering different aspects of society and the natural world, along with two bonus prompts: a deep dive into a single topic and a book of literary criticism (or criticism about the form you intend to work in).

This pocket-sized eighth Letter size sheet printable zine contains fourteen short challenge prompts and spaces to write down three ideas to fulfill each one along with checkboxes to check off what you end up reading. Included are a printable PDF of the zine and an accessible plain text file of the contents.

Worldbuilder's Book Club Pocket Checklist is Quartzine #1, first in an irregular series of zines on a wide range of topics and ideas.