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1.) To start off, what is your favorite medium and tools to use?
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(Contest deadline is Feb. 18. Original literature only, take one of your own existing stories—it can be incomplete or a scrap or whatever—and twist it into something that riffs off the original but isn't totally tied to it. No word limit, but the new story has to have plot progression.)
Hey guys!
I was originally planning to do a chat event, but for various reasons I decided to go with a journal instead. So basically this is a journal you can use to lay out ideas if you're having trouble figuring out directions to take your story. Obviously I can't advise you on how to go about writing it (nor will I, it's your story and ultimately the idea needs to be yours), but if you have questions, fire away
That said, I'm frequently in #CRLiterature anyway. Also please remember there is such a thing as a forum and one of its functions can be to help you refine your ideas once you have something you think you want to run with.
Ground Rules
- IT'S YOUR STORY. No one can tell you what to write. IT'S YOUR STORY. No one can write it for you. IT'S YOUR STORY.
- Feel free to list several directions you're thinking about taking, but make sure you have at least one (say, an original story you know you want to modify).
- Don't be afraid your idea is stupid. Stupid ideas are awesome. Bowties are cool.
- Talk to other people! I'm really just hosting this journal entry for all of y'all.
- Don't ask for permission to write something that you're halfway sure about already: this is a brainstorming blog. The point is to discuss and help get ideas into writeable shape, not to receive affirmation.
- You can ask questions about the overall contest, but I'd really prefer those on the other blog.
- Have fun!
What I'm not sure about now is if I should 1) rewrite, keeping the characters and plot the same and letting my brain go wild, or 2) treat it more like an edit, keeping the vast majority of the old text and altering the setting-specific terms (not just proper nouns but also cultural things, technology terms, etc--for example, instead of falling off a building, someone is probably going to be hit by a speeding train, so even the briefest description of that event is going to have a very different sensory feel). I think I'm going to start with #2 and see if that's workable--in addition to being easier to start, I think it will keep more continuity between the pieces (the point of the contest), because if I start over they might end up looking and feeling totally dissimilar.
Which do you guys think would be more interesting, 1 or 2?
(Also I commented a lot above because I'm a sucker for mutual brainstorming sessions [read: I love to share my 'opinion' with other people].)
I would expect enough details in the world to be different where you'd have to rewrite it, honestly, and I should mention that I'm fine with minimal continuity over basically the same story in a new setting (I focus a lot on plot). To answer your question about genre while I'm at it, I wouldn't want to see literally the same story in a different genre: if the scifi variant is fighting robot dragons and rescuing space princesses, that's not a compelling reason to have chosen the genre. But if, because scifi heroes aren't the same as fantasy heroes, the scrawny page is now the boss, I could see that flying better. So it depends on the story a lot
The reason? That's pretty much what I'm doing. And I can't be wrong right? Right?
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I got nothing
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