Writing Quandary

[iskender]

So whatever Meg had, I have. Perhaps I should be thankful this struck the very day after my long Wednesday. I'm nauseated, dizzy, sickened by the thought of eating, and I've actually experienced minor visual hallucinations. I thought it was just me flipping out, but then Meg said that she had seen them too. Little black bugs in the periphery of

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[stepp_sensei]

Well, you've opened up a contested subject this time

[dgink]

I think if you can hammer out the main idea of the story, you theoretically could plug any setting into that framework. Consider Asimov's "Foundation" books. The futuristic science fiction setting first comes to mind, but these books are really just political drama. His stories weren't dependent on the future, they were just placed there and could have been set in any time (replace evil computers w/ demons or some such thing).

Unless your story IS the setting as in Adams "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" which would not have been possible without Vogon Constructor Fleets. Of course his stories weren't meant to be taken in any way seriously...