: Re: What Is The Key To An "Alien" Culture? Today I am asking for something I've been stumped on: what is the "key" to an alien culture? Allow me to explain: I am currently writing a

Ok. This might actually be a problem for you. I'm not going to lie. Making a completely alien culture is going to be really hard when you're a human. But it's possible, it's definitely possible.
I've got a few suggestions on what you might be able to do. But I'm a human too, so who knows if these suggestions will actually work or not.
My first suggestion is to think up ideas, try really hard to think of completely alien ideas, and then do the complete opposite. If the complete opposite seems too human, then you know that the original idea was about as close to completely alien as you could get.
The next thing you could do is try to study the way other shows and books have represented aliens. Don't copy them, but take some ideas from them to build your own alien community. For example, in Aliens, the aliens are viscous monsters that broke into a human ship and started killing everyone. Their community is advanced but overall just simple, mostly just a big place for the queen to lay her eggs. But is Super Girl, aliens are quite close to being the exact same as humans, except they are far more technologically advanced than humans are. Maybe take those two alien ideas and mash them together to make this aliens community something like a highly operational city full of aliens that look like monsters, but are actually more human than you'd think. The highly operational city could also have an entire section based completely on the queen laying her eggs or giving birth or something (idk, I'm literally just brainstorming here). Get the idea?
Overall though, you really can't make a civilization that's too alien, due simply to the fact that you aren't an alien, you're a human, and like you said, us humans can't think too much outside the box, particularly when the box is the only thing most of us will ever get to see, unless we decide to become astronauts. So sorry if this advice doesn't work. I really wanted to help because no one else would, but just like you, I'm human too, so there's not much that I could do. (Ayyyy, that rhymed. Pretty cool huh?)

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