I’m going through my notes on my computer, just culling and tidying and stumbling across ideas.
I wrote this out for a workshop some time ago, 2017 to be precise. At that point I’d written ZERO futureshocks (later on I’d write on terror tale)
Anyway. You can take or leave these.
Comic creation workshop. 20 solid ideas for creating future shocks
- Create lots of ideas.
- Edit/merge/invert those ideas.
- Tease out the story from the idea, does this lead logically to that?
- Write, then find your theme.
- Rewrite knowing what your theme is.
- Twist once is good. Twist twice is clever. Wrong foot the audience when you know that’s what you want to happen
- Avoid VR prison stories. avoid killing hitler. Avoid they were Adam and Eve.
- If you can’t avoid them, subvert them. Invert them. Add to them. Mix them up.
- No story idea is ever dead, just sent to the great recycling notebook in the pocket
- The finished story should either confirm your theme or repudiate your theme. Is the story that greed is good? Does the end confirm that or flip it on its head?
