A few weeks ago, I decided what would help me write my GN better would be to take the time to flesh out the world it's set in. Rather than doing it all at once, I thought a 30-day challenge would spur me to complete the task, but after searching around I couldn't find one that fit what I had in mind. So, I wrote my own:

1. The World- the general setting that this will all take place in.
2. Geography- the specific landmass you'll be focusing on, the Morrowind to your Tamriel. Talk about weather patterns and the general lay of the land.
3. Landmarks
4. Resources- How do the people get water? Food? Are there rich minerals nearby, or mystical ley lines that power magical energy?
5. Flora
6. Fauna
7. Races/General Culture
8. Clothing- detail differences in outfits between genders and ages as necessary
9. Food- describe an example of a daily diet, however it's divided up (breakfast, brunch, elevensies, etc.), along with any other noteworthy foods for special occasions
10. Arts
11. Trades- Smithing, Carpentry, Dragon-taming, etc.
12. Education
13. Tools- for use in Arts and Trades, or something yet unmentioned
14. Weapons
15. Transportation
16. Politics/Officials- Describe the system of government or leadership used in your society, and who if anyone is in charge. What are the relations between your society and others nearby?
17. Currency/Economy
18. Religions
19. Warfare- How is war handled in your society? Do they fight at all, and if so, who do they send? How do they fight?
20. Housing
21. Businesses
22. Political Buildings
23. Religious Buildings
24. Social Groups- these can be classes grouped by caste or by cultural boundaries (Upper-classes, undesirables, punks, jocks, etc.)
25. Language- for use in naming all of the things you've designed. Establish phonetic patterns with particular cultures (Example: All of the Kokiri people save for Saria have names using Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Da)
26. Folk Traditions/Holidays
27. Toys/Games
28. Legends
29. History
30. Life Cycle- create an entirely new character. Based off of everything that you've already written, give them a full life story, describing how they grew up, what games they played, whether their family was rich or poor, if they were religious; whether they married or stayed celibate, if they became famous or not, and if they die with honor in battle or maybe in their home surrounded by friends and family. Describe how people react to the person's death, and what if any impact their life had upon the land.

My plan is to officially promote the challenge for October (to lead up to NaNoWriMo), but I'm impatient and am planning on doing it once starting January 1st. Would anyone else be interested in doing this?

October next year? why wait so long? I'd be interested, though in 30 days I could only at most put down some sketchy notions (and doubt I can do this for 30 days without interruptions). Is this in a public part of the forum though? The world I'm building is related to my current GN and contains spoilers so I wouldn't post it openly.

Hello there- I'm glad that you're interested in participating. As I said in the first post, I'm going to be doing it in January as well as next October. I don't have concrete rules about where you'd post your daily submissions, a thread here would probably be fine, or else just link a blog or something. If you're worried about spoiling your story, you can always just put a Spoilers tag on it.

this is a great idea

I found this one as well http://www.web-writer.net/fantasy/days/index.html