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Tuesday 15 July 2014

How To Make The Best Sci Fi Books Unconventionally

By Marylou Forbes


Readers and writers will most likely go after the science fiction genre. This is actually likely due to the fact that people know how anything goes within these stories. To those who are interested in making a good story, there are rules that you must follow. These rules are supposed to be the ones that can make your stories a great success.

There are numerous benefits that you should be able to enjoy with writing the said book if you just learn how to break the rules for it. It should allow you to write a fascinating story if you break the rules for the best sci fi books. Here are those rules that you should consider breaking when writing your story in this genre.

When you are writing, you might want to take out the third party omniscient part of your story. Third party omniscient refers to that which allows the readers to peek through what the characters are thinking. Instead of opening up the character's minds bare for the world to see, you just have to do away with that narrative.

Infodumps are actually common with the science fiction genre but it should be avoided. If possible, you should avoid having to right technical schematics and even backstories that overload the information dump of your readers. It will just bore them out if you go ahead with this kind of style.

Try to complete your book in one publication. This means you should avoid those conventions where a science fiction stories span three books, four books, or seven books. If you can, you should make it so that there will only one book needed for the readers to be satisfied with the books you published in the market.

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.

The same goes with the space travels and light travels. You should do your best to do away with these items in a science fiction story. Although it might really sound cool for the protagonist to warp speed and jump into hyperspaces, it should still be worth it to find a plot where there are no more need for space portals, time machines, or warping devices.

It is also a must for you to do away with magic. Regardless of whether it is a science fiction or a fantasy story, magic is commonly used. It might be better for you to find a plot where you can only have the magic as a source of rumor but not really the premise of your story. You can use other premises for this plot.

It is actually rare in the past to find stories written in the present tense. This is mostly because most of the writers think that it is really disconcerting to have present tense in stories. You can break this rule as much as any other rule for writing science fiction. If you can make it work, then go ahead with this.




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