PLANET’s setting will be Earth, seven millenniums into the future. Because I can never actually go there, I will have to create the setting in my mind's eye before I can “transfer” it to others. This is an exciting and daunting task. No one can know how far mankind will have come. You can only consider what people hope to see in the future, though history has so often proved them wrong. The courage is in the trying, I believe.
Wednesday 9 May 2012
The Movie In Your Head
If
writing fiction is akin to showing someone the movie you are watching in your
head, then you need to transfer the character’s experiences to the reader by
way of sight, sound, smell and sensation.
PLANET’s setting will be Earth, seven millenniums into the future. Because I can never actually go there, I will have to create the setting in my mind's eye before I can “transfer” it to others. This is an exciting and daunting task. No one can know how far mankind will have come. You can only consider what people hope to see in the future, though history has so often proved them wrong. The courage is in the trying, I believe.
What
kinds of housing will humans inhabit, what foods will they consume, and what
clothes will they wear? What won’t be available, is a big question. Will
“peak oil” be so on the downward slope that nothing is created from petroleum
anymore? Huge considerations.
How
far do you think humans will have come in seven centuries?
PLANET’s setting will be Earth, seven millenniums into the future. Because I can never actually go there, I will have to create the setting in my mind's eye before I can “transfer” it to others. This is an exciting and daunting task. No one can know how far mankind will have come. You can only consider what people hope to see in the future, though history has so often proved them wrong. The courage is in the trying, I believe.
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