 Fantasy: October 13, 2010 Issue [#4013] |
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This week: Technical Difficulties Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating  
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Murphy’s Law: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” ~ http://www.murphys-laws.com/
Not only will it go wrong, it will do it at the worst possible moment.
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I had an encounter with Murphy’s Law recently. It concerned the DSL modem, the CPU running at 100% and a deadline. On Thursday evening, two of the lights on my modem went out. The lights that went out were the DSL and Internet lights. It was about 10:30 PM and presuming that the issue concerned the telephone jack, I decided to wait until Friday morning to take care of it, I turned the computer off and went to bed.
On Friday, I turned my computer on and the virus scan, which is set to run at 11:30 PM unless the computer is off, began its run. I figured it would take about three hours to finish; I was wrong. Because the CPU was running at 100%, it took the scan seven hours to do its job. After the virus finished, I checked the modem’s connection to the phone jack, but the only lights on the modem were the power and ETHERNET lights. I called Tech Support and after resetting the modem and the browser settings my system is up and running. In addition, I learned something about myself.
This incident got me to thinking about Murphy’s Law, its interaction with technology, and the lessons the characters in a story can learn about themselves. When Murphy’s Law interacts with technology, it is through little unforeseen events. Two lights on a modem go out and there is no Internet access. Under the right or the wrong circumstances, this could have devastating and far-reaching effects.
Technology is an important part of modern life. It is such an essential part of life that the enactment of Murphy’s Law, can cause trouble or at least generate a story plot. I have a challenge for my readers; write a story about Murphy’s Law and a piece of technology. The deadline is November 15.
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Krish D.  writes: I'm very happy to have read this newsletter. I've been working hard behind the scenes on my highlighted story for so long and realized that I hadn't given it any thought on what type of plot it was going to have.
Now that I look back at all the notes of what will happen, I realize that the finished product will have a little bit of all 7 basic plots you mentioned!
While nature tries to take back the earth, Men struggle against each other for power, but Natural disasters cause problems. Advanced Tech becomes a focus, and problem, but the main characterconflicts with his values VS self preservation. Overal, the main antagonist is a group of "rightous" people on a type of "witch hunt"
I guess I have my work cut out for me!
BIG BAD WOLF is Howling  writes: Fantasy and Sci-Fi are very similar. The only difference is that Fantasy uses magic wands and Sci-Fi uses laser guns. 
The Huntress ~ Finding Love writes: Obviously plot is the vehicle for any story, any writing. Even poetry has some underlying plot, though it may be abstract. The trick to great writing is coming up with something original! So much of the time, it seems like it's all been done.
LJPC - the tortoise writes: Hi Prosperous Snow! I enjoyed your newsletter and found the seven plot categories very interesting. I didn't realize religion was one. I'm not sure I've ever read one where the protagonist is fighting against religion or a deity - but I'm sure they're out there. You provided a good link and picked great stories to highlight.  – Laura
In the last newsletter The Premise and The Plot, I placed a period after the URL of The Basic Plots in Literature this produced an error when you clicked on the URL. Here is the address with out a period http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html
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