Here are more notes on a great panel at Life the Universe and Everything SF/F symposium. The topic is on making ideas original
– You can use an old idea and simply twisted one example might be that there is a group of girls are playing D&D and a boy comes in and day 13. The group.
– Some trends of the no such as vampires and zombies
– There are two ideas that can make a story. Being original is one. It was entertaining or two if it makes the reader think of an old idea of a completely new way. One example is avatar. You go into a coffin and you wake up and in a new body. You can ask yourself how that can be used in another way of an avatar new situation. When I did it was discussed was to have cruise ship that has no humans on it. If avatars. And people can go on vacation when they go to bed. An alternative idea is that you have avatars as gladiators and you participate in the games.
– Perspective can help refresh an old idea. For example, many romantic movies touch upon a triangle. Twilight had Bella with a well was or a vampire. Nicholas Sparks is famous for triangle plot lines.
– Plot: have a game is becoming quite the craze of where people are exploding volcano bets and the goal is to get as many humans as possible to get point. Things get created to see how many pretend humans. The latter can get. It mentally prepares society to root for the lab is spitting. Only at the end of the story. Do you realize that the city is gonna be destroyed by exploding, except rooting for the volcano. And the people had to be mentally prepared to do it. Only certain number can escape and this is done to prevent chaos.
– Book pillars of the Earth gave very graphic images of rate environments. We don’t have to be graphic. You still share the concept and threat. You can begin the process and that a reader’s imagination fills in the details and specifics.
– Apple only creates their products for Apple users and not for non-Apple users. Apple users have learned to use visual cues to help with the different functions are of Apple’s
– One twist of a story might be pride and prejudice and zombies. Unique plots are geared to create a mental shift twilight was a new twist of vampires and the aches of high school life
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