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: How to write a novel which is taking place entirely in a foreign country, with foreign culture and foreign characters? How to write a novel which is taking place entirely in a foreign country,
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: How to progress a fantasy novel that is also slice of life? I am currently writing a novel where I mix the genre fantasy, sci-fi, and slice of life. My plan is to make the main character
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: How best to describe multiple alien species in a short amount of time? I am in the beginning stages of writing what might be a space opera. The story starts in a society that consists of
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: Is my novel Fantasy or Sci-Fi? I have a Wattpad account and I've been entering contests... I've been using the fantasy genre to describe my novel, but I just saw descriptions of fantasy and
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: Managing alien languages in Sci-Fi creatively I’m writing a story where alien races are in constant communication with humans, but I don’t want it to be awkward or have to use language tags
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: How to make "new apprentice" type info-dump less boring I'm writing a story wherein a teenager X gets suddenly and involuntarily enlisted in an sci-fi army. I need to explain certain technology
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: When writing science fiction or horror, how to prevent the villain from becoming less scary as they are fleshed out? I'm trying to write a horror short story about a shape-shifter, but I have
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: Modifying common fantasy species like elves, dwarves, etc.? So I'm writing a science fiction story, with more fantasy that actual science. When I say "sci-fi" I really mean space opera.
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: Concerns about my novella trilogy's main antagonist In my novella trilogy that I am writing, Of Aliens and Men, the leader of the main antagonist faction, an alien organization called the Empyre
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: How do I teach my protagonist high level programming? I am working on a science fiction story about robots and the protagonists needs to hack the main computer to stop the robots. Edit: The
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: How can a portal be hidden for 5 years but found by children? I am writing a story in which two children, ages 12-14 years old, discover a portal to another dimension. The portal is roughly
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: Finding a book series, I read the first book awhile ago and would like to finish the series I read a book a while ago and I'm try to remember its name. The book was about a an outcast
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: Would you advise against having a fictional continent as the setting for a Science Fiction story? Let me elaborate. In things such as Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings (so, high fantasy),
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: Would it be bad taste or honoring to name a Starship after historical places, ex: Pompeii? In my book, Earth is gone and are all the counties and a majority of the population and cultures.
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: How do I deliver a historical plot reveal? Right before the climax of my scifi fantasy novel, there's a big reveal about who the bad guys really are and how they influenced the magic system
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: Wreckage or wreckages I'm trying to describe a ring of broken, destroyed spacecraft. I want to use wreckage ring or ring of wreckage or ring of wreckages. Wreckages is an interesting word that
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: How to maximize reader comprehension if worldbuilding is complicated? Parts of my worldbuilding are critical to the plot. If readers don't understand the world, they won't understand the stakes
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: How does one avoid inevitable influences being obvious when writing something like superheroes? So I have been debating writing a story idea I have had swimming in my head for a long time.
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: Hierarchies and Role Titles - How do come up with them I'm looking to see what everyone has used in the past to come up with hierarchies and position titles for your novels. For example,
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: How to avoid or mitigate heavy science lingo and "technobabble" in a science fiction story? Background I am currently working on a small science fiction story (as referenced in a previous question
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: In modern Sci-Fi/Fantasy, does real world racism need to be addressed? I have read through a lot of questions regarding questions of a similar nature, but all of the questions I looked at involved
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: Wrtting Sci/Fi Novel with some Sumerian influences, how to bridge a lengthy time gap in my storyline? I'm writting a novel (in Spanish, I'm from Chile) based on Sumerian culture separated in
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: How can I get 2 characters to bond while standing alternate watches? Setting is standard space opera. I am writing a story in which 2 characters are crewing a spaceship. The characters are:
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: I'm trying to write a blog about future tech and science - where can I find ideas? I watch Isaac Arthur and John Michael Godier; I’m looking for a site to help me write an online blog,
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: Fiction copyright, mythologies and interpretations of ancient texts? So, I understand that ancient mythologies and their characters such as Zeus etc are part of the public domain. However, what
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: What are the top most important key elements for a computer game story? I am a programmer and in the middle of developing a TBS (turn based strategy) computer video game. Those kind of games
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: Is anything like the propulsion systems (warp/impulse drives) copyrighted from being use in other sci-fi novels? I'm currently writing a sci-fi/fantasy novel that mostly takes place on a star/space-ship
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: How would mushroom call mycellium home? I'm wondering for some time.. How would mushrooms fruiting body call it own mycelium? Imagine you're that fruiting body and after releasing your spores
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: Can I conceal an antihero's insanity - and should I? I have an idea for an anti-heroic sci-fi character whose character arc runs from spoilt rich girl, to a refugee in the rubble of human
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: Sci-fi change: Too much or Not enough I am in the process of editing a short story. It is science fiction of the "if this goes on" kind: I take a social trend I see, and paint its event
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: Sense of humor in your sci-fi stories What kind of humor do you find appropriate for your sci-fi stories? I realize that the question might seem so broad, but I think the target group for
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: Write a story based on characters from an old novel I am considering writing a "history" of the Morlocks (based on the characters in the H. G. Wells novel). Question: Is this allowed, or do
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: Is a lack of character descriptions a problem? I have written a novel in which none of the characters are ever described. It started out by accident (3 chapters in when I realized). Question:
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: How do you show, through your narration, a hard and uncaring world? As I've already mentioned, I'm working on a sci-fi novel. One of the main feelings that I wanted to represent when I started
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: How do you build a story from a world? I have some material for a "world" (more fantasy than sci-fi at this point). I've noodled around with this world off-and-on for ages but have never
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: 20 Minutes into the Future - problem with setting the period I have just finished a short story, set in what is known as 20 Minutes into the Future - a time frame that's only a little into
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: Is every story set in the future "science fiction"? Science Fiction is a "big tent" genre, and we all know it when we see it. Even if we argue about the specific tropes – and what might
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: Can I bring back Planetary Romance as a genre? This question is about genre and reader expectations. I'm not trying to change my story to fit a mainstream genre. I have already taken steps
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: The unknown and unexplained in science fiction Science fiction has been defined as a genre where the "incredible" elements are "recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-
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: When an imagined world resembles or has similarities with a famous world Arguably this might belong in worldbuilding.stackexchange.com, but the question has to do with a fiction story and its
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