Guest Post: David Wake - Writing Inevitably
I’m writing outside my comfort zone.
It’s a quest.
I think I’m naturally a science fiction writer. It’s the rules I find attractive. You take a main idea, one only, and run with it.
Rule: SF should have a single idea, except for Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.
Of course, that applies to any fiction, it’s just more obvious in SF. Because it’s the genre of ideas and so the ‘big idea’ sticks out more obviously. It’s easier to spot a Triffid than, say, the cycle of destruction that revenge b...
It’s a quest.
I think I’m naturally a science fiction writer. It’s the rules I find attractive. You take a main idea, one only, and run with it.
Rule: SF should have a single idea, except for Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.
Of course, that applies to any fiction, it’s just more obvious in SF. Because it’s the genre of ideas and so the ‘big idea’ sticks out more obviously. It’s easier to spot a Triffid than, say, the cycle of destruction that revenge b...
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