I'm sure we're all subbed for Q1 and busily clicking away on our Q2s, yes?

Dustin Adams wrote:I type blisteringly fast. Up in the 80 - 100 range.
I could write an entire flash in ten minutes.
It's coming up with what to write that slows me down.
MattDovey wrote:Put another way: the more unique and interesting your setting & world building, the less competition you have.
Don't just make another Star Trek/Star Wars/Mass Effect clone. Come up with a space opera that hasn't been seen before. Do something other than elves and orcs and dwarfs. This is short fiction, and you can get away with almost anything. Throw all your crazy ideas in.
I can confirm this works, and can't say anything more for another three months, which is killing me already.
s_c_baker wrote:MattDovey wrote:Put another way: the more unique and interesting your setting & world building, the less competition you have.
Don't just make another Star Trek/Star Wars/Mass Effect clone. Come up with a space opera that hasn't been seen before. Do something other than elves and orcs and dwarfs. This is short fiction, and you can get away with almost anything. Throw all your crazy ideas in.
I can confirm this works, and can't say anything more for another three months, which is killing me already.
However, I would add that the mutated naked mole rats were entirely unnecessary. Especially what they did to George Washington's trousers. PG-13?!
HUMPH.
*I am starting to realise that your subconscious has an odd fixation on twisted rodents.
dstein wrote:Quick question for anybody with a little info:
I've been told that Dave generally picks a story in each genre. I can think of a few off the top of my head that I've read in collections—urban fantasy, trad fantasy, sci-fi, horror, possibly dark fantasy or military SF—but does anybody have a better idea of what specifically those categories are, as generally interpreted by WotF? The family tree of speculative fiction has so many branches that I'm not sure how Farland and Co. specifically differentiate them.
Dustin Adams wrote:Transport. Your. Reader.
orbivillein wrote:Read the judge and judges fiction. More than read, study what distinguishes their techniques from the mediocre... [The judges generally align with] Hubbard's creative slant and fiction methods...
disgruntledpeony wrote:I bit the bullet and downloaded the free trial of Scrivener today. (Not going to pay for it until I know I like it, because money is not something I have in abundance.) I'll probably go through the tutorial this evening.
I do have to say, I was reading over how it works and it sounds cool in theory. The way it's structured might actually help me a great deal with focus issues, simply because everything is easily available.
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