Just to let everyone know, I’ve started work on a new
project. This one is a sci-fi/fantasy
mashup that has only just begun to take shape.
I got inspired one day when I heard someone talking about using magic
and science together, and I started wondering what would happen if a science
fiction world encountered one where magic was real. What would be the reasons? How would their interactions be affected? Why would the two worlds even collide?
I started playing out a scenario in my brain, and I decided
to start from a sci-fi vantagepoint at first since I’m much more familiar with
that genre(my reading list of fantasy isn’t real long). So why would my sci-fi folks be traveling to
a new world, and why hadn’t they already encountered this kind of stuff? Then, I started figuring out what the magic
world looked like(drawing a map and getting out the colored pencils for the
various factions involved was fun). Now
I’m working through an outline of the conflict – why does it matter that the
sci-fi ship showed up? Does their
presence mean something in particular to a specific problem of the magic world?
I still have a very long way to go(I’ve written a page and
a half right now just to get me started), but it’s exciting. Ask any writer, and it’s always exciting to
start something new. The key is to have
the patience to develop it right as opposed to just vomiting out stuff so I can
OMG GET TO THE END AS SOON AS I CAN!!!
That’s where I’ll struggle.
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