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“An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.”
Chrys Fey
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”
Roman Payne
“Ideas come from everything”
Alfred Hitchcock
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As authors we need to look at the unusual or usual events that occur in our neighborhoods and lives for story ideas. In 2016 there were numerous events happening to individuals and on the world stage that would make good plots for stories. I expect this trend to continue and increase in 2017, but we have to be open to finding them and using them in our short stories, poems and novels.
A recent news article told about a huge bow-shaped wave spotted in the atmosphere of Venus. Other articles discussed Saturn's moons Mimas and Cassini. Mimas resembles a Death Star while Cassini is called Saturn's wave maker. All three of these news articles have potential for generating a fantasy or science fiction plot.
Then there are the unusual and weird or rather offbeat events that happen in our own neighborhoods. These events can all be used as fodder for our stories. We can use some of these events to comment on the difficulties facing us today by moving them form modern settings to other dimensions, historical eras or even off the planet Earth. In 2017 let us attempt to expand our writing by looking at the events occurring today through different or alien eyes.
Did anything happen in your neighborhood during 2016 that you could use in a fantasy story? If so write a short story using it in a fantasy or science fiction setting and submit it to the newsletter. The story should be between 500 and 2000 words. The deadline is Friday, February 17. I will write a story about an unusual event that happened in my neighborhood and include a link in the newsletter. You can submit your story in space provided for feedback at the bottom of this newsletter or send the link directly to me.
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People are born with a timer counting down to their death. A woman meets with a counselor.
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Excerpt: I had another bad day at work today. As a senior, and by senior I mean my expiration is past 65 years old, I'm required to contribute three decades of civil service before I retire. This year they have me in the county hospital as a counselor. It's much easier on my body than my last assignment in railway construction, but curiously, just as tiring on my mind. At only 32 I often feel unqualified to give advice to those in pain, but at the same time I feel that I'm starting to merge with my timer. I've always been told I have an old soul.
Excerpt: "Long ere the dream began, I was
ensconced in silence deep
longing for beginnings.
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Excerpt: Sparks flew around the chemistry lab. Smoke escaped the opened door. Marvin Spillbody waved it away to stare at pretty Polly Pendleton leaning over bubbling jello. "Hi."
Excerpt: It was the longest night of her life,
that winter night that’s long;
the winter solstice laid claim to the light,
she wondered what went wrong.
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Excerpt: He had been told the climate was unfit for man or beast, but he had assumed that to be an exaggeration, the man who had "been there" attempting to lord it over the man who hadn't. Now he realized, as he followed the three sailors dragging his baggage down the gangway to the steam launch, that Peter, the cocky young graduate student who had given him that information, had understated it if anything.
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Excerpt: A generation space ship. A giant ship containing a mini society of people who live, die, give birth over and over again for generations in order to travel great distances in outer space. These ships need to have the capability to supply all the inhabitants needs for decades, even hundreds of years in some cases because there is no way to get new supplies when you're hundreds of light years from Earth. Since faster than light is impossible, the ships go the fastest that is possible which is about 99% the speed of light. Still, it takes sometimes hundreds of years to travel the vast distances between the stars.
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