Sci-fiction is a popular genre that has been adopted in fiction, books, and short stories. While in college, students may be required to write essays about sci-fiction books in order to explain the themes or certain elaborate information. It is essential to note that essay writing adheres t...
In this article, learn ten secrets about how to write a story, and more importantly, how to write a story that's good.
In order for a fantasy/sci-fi story to be convincing, there are many guidelines you have to follow. Notice, I didn’t say rules. Rules are meant to be broken. And, asNeil Gaiman once said, you can break any rule you like if you do so with confidence. Guidelines are different. They...
The other way you can figure out the types of stories is by going deeper, to the underlying reasons humans tell stories in the first place—the reason we've been telling stories for thousands of years, all the way back to the campfire stories our ancestors told each other. Why do we t...
You only manage to squeak out a few sentences. Or maybe you’re writing prolifically, but it’s not at all what you intended. Doubt creeps in again. Your mind wanders to other books or stories you want to write. “Maybe I should write something else,” you wonder. How to combat the...
Sci-fi and fantasy, there's more of an expectation of a three-book series or a six-book series, and it's done. Whereas mystery readers seem to assume that the series can go on and will go on. But as writers, I know that some of my books in my series, I've come to the end...
How to Write Convincing Death Scenes This article is part of theScience in Sci-fi, Fact in Fantasyblog series. Each week, we tackle one of the scientific or technological concepts pervasive in sci-fi (space travel, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, etc.) with input from an expert...
You have knowledge of this kind of book and the subject matter in it.If you write sci-fi, you must have read sci-fi a lot. Romance? You’re reading love stories every waking moment. Your passion for the book idea comes out of your passion for learning about telling this kind of sto...
In many stories, the inciting incident is when the main character gets invited to join a mission, quest, or tournament. This is especially common in the genres of action/adventure, fantasy, and sci-fi. Sometimes this takes the form of a literal invitation, like a letter in the mail. Othe...
No matter what you’re writing, it’s also very helpful to read other works of the same kind and genre. If you’re writing a science fiction novel with a nonlinear structure, read other sci-fi works or books with nonlinear structures. ...