Breaking News
Loading...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Info Post
By Marylou Forbes


People who love to read will normally go for science fictions and fantasy genres. This is most likely because anything can happen in these stories. As long as the author makes the idea seem plausible, then it is a good story to pursue. It does not even matter if there are rules or no rules being followed for it.

It is actually more interesting for authors to break the rules when it comes to writing the best sci fi books. This is most likely because breaking the rules is the only way for a fascinating story to be told. For those who are interested in writing the story, here are some of the rules that must be broken.

When you are writing, you might want to take out the third party omniscient part of your story. Third party omniscient refers to that which allows the readers to peek through what the characters are thinking. Instead of opening up the character's minds bare for the world to see, you just have to do away with that narrative.

Infodumps are actually common with the science fiction genre but it should be avoided. If possible, you should avoid having to right technical schematics and even backstories that overload the information dump of your readers. It will just bore them out if you go ahead with this kind of style.

Having one book should become the norm once again. Instead of the popular trilogies and chronicle types of books, a writer should take it as a challenge to improve his or her writing skills and aim to have just one book. If you have one book, then you can definitely aim for a better market since you do not have to entice them to buy the sequel.

When writing, you might want to consider the plots where no portals are used. Commonly science fictions have this double standard that it is all about having portals. Instead of having protagonists accidentally find out a pathway leading to another world, you can have alternatives that may click well with what you have.

Space travels or light travels should also be taken away of the common plot for science fiction plots. Of course, it is definitely awesome to warp speed or to jump into hyperspace. However, there is a bit less realism in there. It might be exciting to go for space travels but the charm has already worn off after being used in lots of science fictions these days.

Instead of using magic as a vital part in science fictions, you might want to consider it as a minor part of the world. Do not just rely heavily on it when you want to write this genre. There is more to science fictions and fantasy stories than just the magic that you can produce from wands or with the wave of your fingers.

It is actually rare in the past to find stories written in the present tense. This is mostly because most of the writers think that it is really disconcerting to have present tense in stories. You can break this rule as much as any other rule for writing science fiction. If you can make it work, then go ahead with this.




About the Author:



0 comments:

Post a Comment