Yay! I have added you back. Have you got an idea and made a start on planning it out? Or are you more the sort of fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants type of writer?
I have an idea and at first I thought it would be fantasy and I was gonna pants it hard, but it's slowly morphing more into a sci-fi story that requires a bit more planning so I'll be spending the next week figuring out what parts of the story need actual research and which parts I can just 'timey-wimey' for now. And the ending is unclear atm so I'm wondering if i need to figure that out now or see if writing the story leads me to a conclusion.
I just saw the brief synopsis of your idea and I can see how that could go either way from fantasy to sci fi. I think it'd also make a great graphic novel ;) I suppose the good thing about sci fi stuff is that you can timey-wimey a lot of it, as long as it sounds plausible. And there's a section on the NaNo forums where you can ask for information on various things should you need help.
Do you have any kind of ending at all? I have a sci fi story that I really wanted to do for NaNo but I have absolutely no idea of how it ends so I decided not to use it. If you have a vague idea of how it could end, you could possibly chance not planning that bit and just seeing how it goes. I think there's various ideas on the NaNo site on how to get out of a hole should you get stuck if that's a worry for you.
Yeah I was going to do fantasy because I feel fantasy stories rely more on internal logic and you can do a lot 'because i say so' for implausible stuff while sci-fi tends to lean a lot more on real-world workings.
In short my story is going to be about how the world is being powered by an artificial sun that is now malfunctioning. Due to a scientific dark age, the knowledge on how to repair it does not exist anymore. At some point a bit of essence from the sun was captured and locked inside a human (why?science fun and giggles?) who now needs to be found so the sun can either be fixed or replaced with an actual sun. I have no clue how that would be done so we'll see if I can make a vaguely plausible solution for that. Perhaps I'll just have them fail and the world die. It's a bit of a fantasy/sci-fi overlap at this point so the trick is going to be to find the balance so the fantasy parts seem a bit less deus-ex-machina.
You know, it sounds like it could be kind of steampunky. Which could maybe combine both fantasy and sci fi together.
Perhaps the person who has some of the sun's essence was an explorer of some description, they were up in the sky and there was a solar flare so that's how they got the essence. Then perhaps, bringing that person close to the sun so it can be transferred back will kick-start a new chain reaction type thingy? Or it fails, the sun explodes and everyone dies ;)
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Do you have any kind of ending at all? I have a sci fi story that I really wanted to do for NaNo but I have absolutely no idea of how it ends so I decided not to use it. If you have a vague idea of how it could end, you could possibly chance not planning that bit and just seeing how it goes. I think there's various ideas on the NaNo site on how to get out of a hole should you get stuck if that's a worry for you.
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In short my story is going to be about how the world is being powered by an artificial sun that is now malfunctioning. Due to a scientific dark age, the knowledge on how to repair it does not exist anymore. At some point a bit of essence from the sun was captured and locked inside a human (why?science fun and giggles?) who now needs to be found so the sun can either be fixed or replaced with an actual sun. I have no clue how that would be done so we'll see if I can make a vaguely plausible solution for that. Perhaps I'll just have them fail and the world die. It's a bit of a fantasy/sci-fi overlap at this point so the trick is going to be to find the balance so the fantasy parts seem a bit less deus-ex-machina.
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Perhaps the person who has some of the sun's essence was an explorer of some description, they were up in the sky and there was a solar flare so that's how they got the essence. Then perhaps, bringing that person close to the sun so it can be transferred back will kick-start a new chain reaction type thingy? Or it fails, the sun explodes and everyone dies ;)
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