Tuesday, July 15, 2014

How To Make The Best Sci Fi Books Unconventionally

By Marylou Forbes


It is only natural for readers and writers to try the science fiction genre. It is all because of the fact that in science fiction, almost anything goes. You can do anything to the story, for the writers. You can read almost any plot twist, for the readers. It is really interesting to delve yourself in science fictions or fantasy stories.

It is actually more interesting for authors to break the rules when it comes to writing the best sci fi books. This is most likely because breaking the rules is the only way for a fascinating story to be told. For those who are interested in writing the story, here are some of the rules that must be broken.

If you are writing, there is the option for you of taking out the third party omniscient. You can just go ahead with the story without having to divulge what your characters are thinking about. Since the minds of these characters are not open for your readers to read, you can easily make a world where anything can happen.

Infodumps should be regulated. In fact, it is better if you avoid it. You should avoid dumping the readers loads of technical schematics and backstories that they may not be fond of. You should avoid having to dump information onto the throat of your readers as if it is a norm for them to go through.

Having one book should become the norm once again. Instead of the popular trilogies and chronicle types of books, a writer should take it as a challenge to improve his or her writing skills and aim to have just one book. If you have one book, then you can definitely aim for a better market since you do not have to entice them to buy the sequel.

Try to create a plot where the story does not have to rely on a portal to have the fantasy take effect. Most of the fantasy stories these days take on the premise of having discovered portals or have accidentally fallen into portals before they are taken into a new world. If a world can be discovered without going through portals, then that should be good.

You might also want to do away with light travels and space travels. You can do better with your science fictions when you go ahead with other plots aside from delvig into quantum physics where you can turn back time or where you can jump from one time period to another. You can stop using time machines for this.

Instead of using magic as a vital part in science fictions, you might want to consider it as a minor part of the world. Do not just rely heavily on it when you want to write this genre. There is more to science fictions and fantasy stories than just the magic that you can produce from wands or with the wave of your fingers.

Using present tense should be encouraged these days. Most writers do not really want to use present tense because they think it is too disconcerting. However, you can actually take advantage of present tenses if you want to make the story more immediate. You can make your story work better if you use the present tense.




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