Post by account_disabled on Dec 31, 2023 19:55:01 GMT -8
After almost two years, here I am talking again about ideas for creating stories or novels. In February 2012 I wrote about 7 ways to invent stories , in January 2014 the ways to invent them became 12 , in May of the same year 7 creative writing exercises were released and in January 2015 22 new ways to write stories . I didn't think I'd write about it again, but while I was preparing the long post on last Tuesday's 100 books to read, I came across a sort of narrative thread that I had never heard of. From there my mind moved on to another topic, which I was familiar with, and so I decided to write down a draft for this article, which who knows when I would write. And then in two or three days I finished it. I preferred to divide the ideas into narrative genres, so as to please everyone.
Obviously the romance is missing, but there's little effort there, in my opinion. Adventure Do you still want to read about ancient sunken treasures? Or gold bars buried somewhere by the Nazis? Or secret bases in the Arctic and exotic Indiana Jones stories and kids grappling with unfathomable mysteries? If you're tired of reading all this, then you're tired of writing about it too. Or not? Why not try Special Data something new? Here are some ideas. Tarzanids : i.e. characters inspired by Tarzan. And if you prefer feminine, there are jungle girls . We in Italy have two examples of this genre, even if in comics: Akim and Zagor. Stories from pulp magazines? Why not? The world is big and you can find the ideal setting for your tarzanid. Lost World : characteristic genre of nineteenth and twentieth century literature. It is thanks to Conan Doyle and his work Il Mondo Perduto (The Lost World, 1912) that this trend was born.
King Kong is an example of this. Can you imagine a lost world somewhere on Earth? Dream adventures : let's take the Lovecraftian Dream Cycle as an example, a world accessed through dreams, in fact. Fantastic, don't you think? Some time ago I also dabbled in some dream stories . Fantasy Are you fed up with elves and magical swords? What about old, bearded wizards who solve situations? And of imaginary and non-existent lands, but all so Anglo-Saxon? And I also bet on lost legends and omens and hero's journeys and knights without blemish and without fear. It's time to try something new in the fantasy genre. Fantasy, then, means fantasy, so let's put this fantasy into it! Prose poems : I discovered them when I read the work of HP Lovecraft. “Nyarlathotep” is an example of a prose poem. A short story written in an evocative style.
Obviously the romance is missing, but there's little effort there, in my opinion. Adventure Do you still want to read about ancient sunken treasures? Or gold bars buried somewhere by the Nazis? Or secret bases in the Arctic and exotic Indiana Jones stories and kids grappling with unfathomable mysteries? If you're tired of reading all this, then you're tired of writing about it too. Or not? Why not try Special Data something new? Here are some ideas. Tarzanids : i.e. characters inspired by Tarzan. And if you prefer feminine, there are jungle girls . We in Italy have two examples of this genre, even if in comics: Akim and Zagor. Stories from pulp magazines? Why not? The world is big and you can find the ideal setting for your tarzanid. Lost World : characteristic genre of nineteenth and twentieth century literature. It is thanks to Conan Doyle and his work Il Mondo Perduto (The Lost World, 1912) that this trend was born.
King Kong is an example of this. Can you imagine a lost world somewhere on Earth? Dream adventures : let's take the Lovecraftian Dream Cycle as an example, a world accessed through dreams, in fact. Fantastic, don't you think? Some time ago I also dabbled in some dream stories . Fantasy Are you fed up with elves and magical swords? What about old, bearded wizards who solve situations? And of imaginary and non-existent lands, but all so Anglo-Saxon? And I also bet on lost legends and omens and hero's journeys and knights without blemish and without fear. It's time to try something new in the fantasy genre. Fantasy, then, means fantasy, so let's put this fantasy into it! Prose poems : I discovered them when I read the work of HP Lovecraft. “Nyarlathotep” is an example of a prose poem. A short story written in an evocative style.