Rooms/buildings/spaces as prompts

[lea_hazel]

I'm trying to expand upon a small prompt randomizer that I wrote ages ago. The gist of it is to pick a character and a location. The locations in question are on a small, flexible scale e.g. not "New York city" but more like "kitchen" or "gazebo" or "classroom".

I have a list of rooms already that I copied from a Wikipedia template (here). If you can help me brainstorm more, or have a good source you can think of off the top of your head, please comment.

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Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is awesome. You are totally on target.

I suggest looking for "literary" spaces often features as settings. There are lists of such things. I use literary settings in my bingo prompts and poetry fishbowls -- things like "the forest primeval," "liminal zone," and "alien spaceship."

Re: Wow!

[lea_hazel]

Ooh, those are interesting.

[thisbluespirit]

The list of big house rooms seems to be oddly missing "library" for some reason.

[lea_hazel]

Would the library and study be separate rooms?

[thisbluespirit]

If the house was big enough, yes.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

They can be. It depends on the size of your house and book collection. Same for other specialty rooms like nursery, craft room, sewing room, billiards room, etc. You want a good idea, try looking at mansion floor plans. If you have 10 bedrooms, you need a lot more "common" space, so the first divergence is usually living room/family room.

Specifically, a study is another word for home office. It has a desk and chairs. People without too many books will usually put them in there. But if you have a lot, you need a separate library. LOL or do what we do: put books in every room. I have a lot in my office, but the library is in another part. I think we literally have books in every room except the closets.

Re: Yes ...

[lea_hazel]

I guess in the case of the kind of stories I'm working on, it's more a question of whether having a large, inherited book collection is a status symbol or not.

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

It also depends on the surrounding culture. But you don't have to nail it down. If you say "library" it could be a dedicated room, one wall of a study, a home collection, or a public library.