A frequent blog where I share ideas and resources for fiction writers of all genres. Each issue is imagined independently and is intended to invoke inspiration.
Remembered one more idea I had. It could be a story about a spaceship sent from Earth to a distant star. However, due to the distance involved, they had to basically put a population on there where generations of people will get born, live and die on this ship, with their descendants to arrive at the destination a thousand years later. But now the destination is approaching and people are conflicted. Lots of people refuse to believe they are in a spaceship at all, they claim that the spaceship is just the world where they live. Other people form a religion where they believe that you can go to another world only through meditation. Etc. etc. Could be an interesting exploration of the human condition:)
I really like this idea. My approach to this story would be to keep the reader from knowing that it’s a colony ship for as long as possible. I would write it from the perspective(s) of people living in the vast biodome that live by homesteading, but with some ecologically friendly technologies. However, drones from the AI that runs the ship occasionally fly over and there’s the other factions, one of which is a corrupted version of the human crew meant to keep everyone on track.
The truth eventually gets revealed as technology back on Earth has evolved to the point of FTL and a ship arrives to assess their situation. I would probably include their perspective as well.
Essentially, I would try to make it a mystery until they arrive, giving subtle and not-so-subtle clues….[[|:-)
One interesting setting I thought of is our world but flat, so that civilization developed in circumstances where everyone can see what everyone else was doing (so no surprise attacks, the Romans, for example, could see Hannibal setting out from Carthage and not be surprised etc) and what the modern world would look like as a result :)
That is an interesting idea for a setting. I think people would read it no matter what they believe, and I also think that lookouts and scouts would have much more profound roles; messengers, too….[[|:-)
Oh yeah, too true! Also giving people much greater incentive to climb mountains earlier, maybe even affecting the evolution of pagan cults (given that the gods were believed to reside on Mount Olympus, for example) :)
Remembered one more idea I had. It could be a story about a spaceship sent from Earth to a distant star. However, due to the distance involved, they had to basically put a population on there where generations of people will get born, live and die on this ship, with their descendants to arrive at the destination a thousand years later. But now the destination is approaching and people are conflicted. Lots of people refuse to believe they are in a spaceship at all, they claim that the spaceship is just the world where they live. Other people form a religion where they believe that you can go to another world only through meditation. Etc. etc. Could be an interesting exploration of the human condition:)
I really like this idea. My approach to this story would be to keep the reader from knowing that it’s a colony ship for as long as possible. I would write it from the perspective(s) of people living in the vast biodome that live by homesteading, but with some ecologically friendly technologies. However, drones from the AI that runs the ship occasionally fly over and there’s the other factions, one of which is a corrupted version of the human crew meant to keep everyone on track.
The truth eventually gets revealed as technology back on Earth has evolved to the point of FTL and a ship arrives to assess their situation. I would probably include their perspective as well.
Essentially, I would try to make it a mystery until they arrive, giving subtle and not-so-subtle clues….[[|:-)
Thank you very much:)
YES! Love that approach! I really gotta have a go at writing something when I have more time:)
I chuckled at Jaws 5: The Final Leg-acy 😂
One interesting setting I thought of is our world but flat, so that civilization developed in circumstances where everyone can see what everyone else was doing (so no surprise attacks, the Romans, for example, could see Hannibal setting out from Carthage and not be surprised etc) and what the modern world would look like as a result :)
(People could build walls to cover what they are doing but that would be a suspicious action in itself, hehe:))
That is an interesting idea for a setting. I think people would read it no matter what they believe, and I also think that lookouts and scouts would have much more profound roles; messengers, too….[[|:-)
100%! It would appeal to both flat earth and normie markets, hehe:)
The age of instant communication would definitely arrive much sooner, given that you could use light flashes/Morse code way earlier:)
And telescopes could see mountain range to mountain range….[[|:-)
Oh yeah, too true! Also giving people much greater incentive to climb mountains earlier, maybe even affecting the evolution of pagan cults (given that the gods were believed to reside on Mount Olympus, for example) :)