Your story characters don’t necessarily need employment, but they do need something to do. What do they study? What are they good at?
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!This writing prompt list will help you decide which scientific field(s) of study your character should focus on; and to make it more interesting, they are either uncommon or unheard of in popular culture. Use them to re-focus a character, change your plotline resolution, or simply learn about the field of study yourself. Authors do research on a lot of random information in their lifetime in order to write about things properly.
| Fields of Interest |
| Hydrodynamics – study of movement in liquids |
| Hydrometeorology – study of atmospheric moisture |
| Hyetology – science of rainfall |
| Aerodonetics – science or study of gliding |
| Aeropalynology – study of pollens and spores in atmosphere |
| Agnoiology – study of ignorance |
| Agonistics – art and theory of prize-fighting |
| Paradoxology – study of paradoxes |
| Osphresiology – study of the sense of smell |
| Parthenology – study of virgins |
| Peristerophily – pigeon-collecting |
| Sphygmology – study of the pulse |
| Stratography – art of leading an army |
| Ktenology – science of putting people to death |
| Kinesiology – study of human movement and posture |
| Ideogeny – study of origins of ideas |
| Grammatology – study of systems of writing |
| Euthenics – science concerned with improving living conditions |
| Epistemology – study of grounds of knowledge |
| Eidology – study of mental imagery |
| Dosiology – study of doses |
| Dermatoglyphics – study of skin patterns and fingerprints |
| Dactyliology – study of rings |
| Catechectics – art of teaching by question and answer |
| Castrametation – art of designing a camp |
| Celestial mechanics – study of motion of objects in outer space |
| Anemology – study of wind |