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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Jan 4, 2010 13:52:49 GMT -5
Damn! Silver, awesome idea. Would like to see short with people riding dinosaurs!
Also: *light-bulb-ping!* My idea/muse just crawled into my head on all fours, begging me to use it, whispering dark and evil things. Oozing in against my temporal-lobe of ideas, watching the World through my eyes, like the dark and silvery demon it shall become!
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Post by James on Jan 4, 2010 13:58:46 GMT -5
Taed: Historical Fiction's boundaries are kind of blurred. Alternative History is its own genre, but I think its fine if you don't take everything completely factual.
Reffy: Gothic in its simplest explanation is horror + romance.
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Post by Orombur on Jan 4, 2010 15:20:27 GMT -5
Huh, Taed... Hopefully I'll give him a run for his money.
Good luck to everyone.
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Post by Prologue on Jan 4, 2010 17:33:48 GMT -5
I know Military Sci-Fi doesn't seem very difficult, but I'm having a lot of trouble thinking of anything that doesn't seem contrived. I think I've played too much Halo...
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jan 4, 2010 17:48:15 GMT -5
Damn! Silver, awesome idea. Would like to see short with people riding dinosaurs!  |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Jan 4, 2010 18:14:28 GMT -5
Not sure if I can make the idea I had work. It is turning out to be pretty epic, and way longer than I planned it. There is a lot of jumping from past to present, and I'm now worried that I won't be able to make it work.  |
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Post by The Drall on Jan 4, 2010 18:25:52 GMT -5
Right, for Robinsonade...it's basically both isolation and survival, aye? Is it possible to kick one out?
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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jan 4, 2010 18:30:56 GMT -5
Okay, for the apocalyptic story.
Does it have to be set post-apocalypse? Or can it be set pre-apocalypse and then the ending be post-apocalypse?
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jan 4, 2010 18:34:19 GMT -5
Those both sound like great questions to leave open to writer's interpretation.
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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jan 4, 2010 18:36:24 GMT -5
*Salute*
Onto the story!
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Post by The Drall on Jan 4, 2010 19:30:42 GMT -5
Indeed!
Tomorrow!
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Jan 4, 2010 20:54:50 GMT -5
Nearly 3k here today :] but I've hit a snag. I have an awesome story/plot, but no real romance. Can you have Gothic Fiction without any romance? Probably not considering it came from the Romance Era.
It's still a work in progress. Something interesting is happening with my main character, so I'm building on that to see what happens.
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Post by James on Jan 4, 2010 21:00:06 GMT -5
Nearly 3k here today :] but I've hit a snag. I have an awesome story/plot, but no real romance. Can you have Gothic Fiction without any romance? Probably not considering it came from the Romance Era. It's still a work in progress. Something interesting is happening with my main character, so I'm building on that to see what happens. Obviously just one judge's opinion, but I think if you can capture that Gothic feel without the romance it probably won't harm you. Indeed, being able to pull off a Gothic feel without romance might even aid you. |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Jan 4, 2010 21:22:14 GMT -5
Hmmm. That is interesting to note. It definitely has a Gothic feel to it, and a lot of lust, but no real lovey-dovey romance. Think I might need to enlist a friend to read it for me  I don't want to extend it just to get romance in it, and lose the awesome back and forth I had going. I don't want it to feel tacked on. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jan 5, 2010 0:58:36 GMT -5
Hmmm. That is interesting to note. It definitely has a Gothic feel to it, and a lot of lust, but no real lovey-dovey romance. Think I might need to enlist a friend to read it for me I don't want to extend it just to get romance in it, and lose the awesome back and forth I had going. I don't want it to feel tacked on. Lucky for you, you're using "Romance" in the wrong context. Gothic literature was born out of "Romantic" literature; ie Romanticism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RomanticismIt doesn't really have that much to do with lovey dovey/lusty/sexy/kinky/whatever it's been popularized to be like. There doesn't have to be creepy characters and heavy breathing in compromizing positions. Though there is often an element of dark/forbidden love/lust in most popular Gothic Fiction, the genre itself. . . well, just read the Wiki. Gothic is basicly the darker side of Romaticism; which, incidentally, happens to be one of my favorite genres. |
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I don't want to extend it just to get romance in it, and lose the awesome back and forth I had going. I don't want it to feel tacked on.